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As with the picture at reference 1, I started to wonder about how this photograph was made.

Option 1, hire the room, the props and the model, faff about for a day or so and get the image.

Option 2, hire some of the above, get an image, borrow the rest of the props from Shutterstock, faff about in Photoshop  for a day or so and get the image.

Option 3, get the whole lot from Shutterstock and do the whole thing in Photoshop.

I imagine there are pros and cons, with the obvious ones being the descending costs as one goes through these options, but once again what I need is a Photoshop nerd to explain them for me. For example, how good is Photoshop at faking the effects of natural light on the image of something that has been imported from elsewhere? Can it do it at all given that it is not going to have a three dimensional description of the something in question? Or maybe Photoshop is truly cunning and can extract a stab at such a description from a single two dimensional image. Or maybe it needs at least two, taken from slightly different angles.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/picture.html.

Reference 2: http://www.shutterstock.com/.

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