A personal project of mine, made to study what makes a photo look like a photo. Found out the biggest problem I have in Octane is to get that nice "micro contrast" that many photos have, Octane renders quite often look a bit bleak (I miss some sliders for contrast etc in camera settings). Solution to this I found was to make a high pass layer with very high value and soft light it. Similar to the clairty-function which I generally hate, but this worked out pretty good.
Also realized that jpeg compression artifacts really makes a nice job to make an image look more real instead of just noise.
I won't change anything now but critics are always welcome. I can start by saying the floor scratches are way too strong
Reference to this project was taken from pinterest.
