Yeah, this thing has a very "photobashed" quality to it. The lighting is all over the place. They're not casting shadows, either.
EDIT: Ah, I think I figured out why it feels so weird - everything is in focus. The frontmost male, the awning, the trashcans (?), the woman's arm... all very sharp. Durham is only slightly out of focus. Cameras don't work like this.
Look up Tone mapping. It's a real technique in photography and its built into many modern phones (which by the way have tiny sensors, easy to keep everything in focus).
Ah, tone mapping could explain at least some of the lighting issues, but I'm not convinced that the sharpness is simply a matter of a type of camera sensor. Assuming parts of this image weren't just bashed together in PhotoShop, it could be that there's some sort of AI-assistant feature in the camera software - I'm not sure, there's just something off about this image.
Yeah, this thing has a very "photobashed" quality to it. The lighting is all over the place. They're not casting shadows, either.
EDIT: Ah, I think I figured out why it feels so weird - everything is in focus. The frontmost male, the awning, the trashcans (?), the woman's arm... all very sharp. Durham is only slightly out of focus. Cameras don't work like this.
Look up Tone mapping. It's a real technique in photography and its built into many modern phones (which by the way have tiny sensors, easy to keep everything in focus).
Ah, tone mapping could explain at least some of the lighting issues, but I'm not convinced that the sharpness is simply a matter of a type of camera sensor. Assuming parts of this image weren't just bashed together in PhotoShop, it could be that there's some sort of AI-assistant feature in the camera software - I'm not sure, there's just something off about this image.