Why Your Composites Look Fake (And It's Not the Masking)

The Problem Nobody Talks About in Critiques A few years back I finished a movie poster composite I was genuinely proud of. The masking was clean, the perspective was right, the subject was sharp. I sent it to the client, they loved it, it went to print. And for about three days, I felt good about it. Then I looked at it again on a different monitor, in daylight, and saw it immediately.