Real or CG?

[Aruna]

It's time for another Is it real, CG, or miniature? Check the image below, and see if you can figure out if it's CG, a real photo, or a miniature shoot.

[srproductions]

To me it looks both like a minature combined with CG, so I voted CG. Mainly because of no depth of field and the lighting.

[robles]

i would say CG with miniature

[PJisAnarchist]

For me its a matte painting, the lighting between the fore and the background is different. If its real its alot corrected .

[hiphopcr]

Reminds me of Polar Express or something

[Yossarian!]

The foreground stuff looks absolutely amazing, but the glow around the rear windows looks an awful lot like Sapphire glow (on default setting) and I've seen similar skylights and rafters achieved elsewhere with cg without too much difficulty. So cg. But surprise us!

[SalaTar]

Its prolly real with just PS touch

but the jaggies on the left ladder are odd

would the fx team miss this?(see attached)

[Aruna]

Good guesses everyone! No one thought it was a miniature! Ah.. Well, it's not one of those.. It's also not CG. This shot is of the Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops. in Topeka, Kansas. Taken in March 1943. Here's the originating image - http://www.shorpy.com/node/50

You can vaguely see a human figure in the distance, blurred out from the timelapsed photo.

[azkuene]

Here is another human

[shonofear]

so was this shot with color at the time...

[SalaTar]

You can vaguely see a human figure in the distance, blurred out from the timelapsed photo.

there is more than 1
one by the "light ray" and other on floor next to bioler

[SalaTar]

best part about it is the 3 or 4 second exposure makes the shot

[robles]

!!

man, reality is now sooo fake!