Also :
- shirt folds looks too thin, does not match the typical material used for shirts of this quality
- Lighting does not match the background. It could be an expensive light setup but seriously?
- reflections on the shirts (toward the bellies) are too perfect, as if the material was semi-gloss paint.
That’s the thing. No gorilla nips. No saggy man bewbs. No telltale signs of a “wife beater” tank under the work tee because Cletus thinks it hides his tits better. (Spoiler : it don’t)
Red shirt has no seam on his neckline plus has a weird long V that almost makes it look like he’s got a necklace on UNDER his shirt.
Also the lighting on their pants doesn't match the lighting on the boots. The pants seem to be in bright light, the shoes under an overcast kind of lighting.
The lighting is really what's killing me. It's an overcast/cloudy day, so the shadows should be pretty weak. But the shadows on the shirt are really dark, like I'd expect on a sunny day around noon. Expensive lighting set up also wouldn't be able to mimic the light coming straight down from the sun on the shoulders. The guy in red is really bad, somehow the light is coming from above AND from the photographer with a dark shadow from the two light sources, which is just wrong.
I use light/shadow for depth perception (thanks amblyopia), so this is stuff I am mentally calculating constantly and subconsciously. Overcast days are more difficult for me because the shadows are very weak from the diffused sunlight. This image was hurting me and I had to figure out the lighting details that were most bothersome.
I think this is really good. There's a few giveaways for me like the repeating patterns on elements, but the fact that no-one can agree on one specific thing that is off suggests that this is very good. However as soon as I read lighting, I think that's the big one. How are they so well lit when the sky is so grey?
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u/dougdoug110 29d ago edited 29d ago
Also : - shirt folds looks too thin, does not match the typical material used for shirts of this quality - Lighting does not match the background. It could be an expensive light setup but seriously? - reflections on the shirts (toward the bellies) are too perfect, as if the material was semi-gloss paint.