Mastering Perspective in Photo Compositing: Why Your Composite Falls Flat (And How to Fix It)

I spent three hours on a composite last week. The lighting matched. The colors blended perfectly. The subject sat naturally in the frame. Then I stepped back and felt that sinking feeling—something was fundamentally wrong, and I couldn’t quite name it. My art director certainly could: “The perspective is killing it.” She was right. I’d placed a figure into an architectural scene without accounting for the viewer’s eye level, and the mismatch screamed fake.