realistic montage

ishfaqbaijoo  wrote Hello, Please i've been working this piece for some time. The photo is real and high quality. But feedback from boss was to make it 'LOOK MORE REAL, IT LOOKS 3D' Give me some tips pls, thanks

Blimey, it's all over the place.  You say this is a real photograph?   What is real, and what focal length did you use?  What did you add, and did you add it as a single unit, or bit by bit? 

You have a lot of problems there.  The vanishing point for the walls is about eye height, which is good, but the focal length is way too wide.  If you match the furniture to the walls, it is going to look like an endless tunnel because of the extreme perspective.   So I thought about matching the walls to the furniture, but the vanishing point for that is well above eye height, and would make the room look like it was photographed from above eye height, which wouldn't match the counter tops.

It still looks better with the room matched to the furniture though.  The hob has been faked to match the same perspective below, but there is not enough detail in the sink to work with.

Have a look at SketchUp.  It is free, easy to use, and you could mock this entire scene up in no time after some practice.  The furniture is all downloadable for free from a massive online library.  You can place the camera wherever you want by moving the mouse, and render out to a very decent 3D image.  In fact you could make a video of the camera moving through your model of the entire building!

SketchUp for Kitchen Bath Interior Design | SketchUp

Another option is to model and render elements in a 3d app, and use Photoshop to composite those into the photo. But you would have to know how to work with a 3d application.

Can't you see the problems with perspective in your piece? If not, you will have to read up on how to render/draw elements in perspective - that is too much to explain here. For starters, your kitchen block seems to float on top of the background. The bottom corners of the kitchen block ought to be placed/aligned with the room's corners - against the walls.

As for the shadows, you applied dark "ambient occlusion" shadows around your kitchen and in the room's corners, which is far too strong. That is not how "real" shadows work. Again, grab a good book that explains about lighting and shadows - for example, "Color and Light" by Gurney.

There are other issues in how you render the materials. I wonder, you say you used a real photo somewhere in this piece? If so, your additions and tinkering have turned it into a less "real" result.

- shadows and lighting are all all wrong

- perspective is completely incorrect

- reflections gradients look fake (like simple gradients)