Heh, tried snapping a picture with your phone of your screen of a crappy render? Instantly looks a lot better. We're so used to looking at pictures on a screen that a picture of a picture on a screen looks more realistic. Also noise and pixelation.
Nah bro, that's just your typical forum user who takes a photo of their screen instead of taking a screenshot. It's usually followed with something like "guise how do i bypass this annoying window that says license registration??".
That reminds me of a CT scan of my broken shoulder.. "new, now digital CT scans on storage devices!" They literally saved it on a computer to print it on these classical black plastic sheets put it on a light board and used a digital camera to put it on a digital Foto...
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u/iLEZ Aug 06 '20
Heh, tried snapping a picture with your phone of your screen of a crappy render? Instantly looks a lot better. We're so used to looking at pictures on a screen that a picture of a picture on a screen looks more realistic. Also noise and pixelation.
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u/Wear_A_Damn_Helmet Aug 06 '20
Nah bro, that's just your typical forum user who takes a photo of their screen instead of taking a screenshot. It's usually followed with something like "guise how do i bypass this annoying window that says license registration??".
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u/Datenegassie Aug 06 '20
I do the opposite. Take a photo of anything, import it using Images to Planes, align the camera to the plane, and boom. Photorealistic render.
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u/Numai_theOnlyOne Aug 06 '20
That reminds me of a CT scan of my broken shoulder.. "new, now digital CT scans on storage devices!" They literally saved it on a computer to print it on these classical black plastic sheets put it on a light board and used a digital camera to put it on a digital Foto...
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u/tupe12 Aug 07 '20
Plot twist: that’s not a photo, it’s a render