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

The Thing That Was Wrong With My First Published Piece The first composite I ever got paid for was a movie poster. Small production, indie film, but it was real money and a real deadline. I finished it, sent it off, and saw it hanging in a theater lobby three weeks later. I stood there staring at it for probably five minutes, and the only thing I could see was the shadow on the lead actor’s face going in the exact opposite direction from every other shadow in the image.