natural lighting Lighting, the small and sexy amount of bloom, the soft colors, really look great.
Problems being the denoising, making the asphalt look like someone accidently applied the photoshop pastelle filter.
I attached a crop. It looks like how they do with VNs. Take photos, apply pastelle filter and anime character on top.
The sharpening is way way too much. The amount of sharpening artidfacts, on the trees in R3 in the background make it look like it snowed and on the brick walls, it just looks aweful.
Again, so much sharpening lately with the Corona crowd.
One more point being the forced Depth of field. I know some people like it, but personally I can't stand it if it is forced in such an unreal way. Is this a 2 meter sensor with a F0.1 lens? This doesnt work IMO for photo real images.
Last thing is rather subjective. The Women cut out does not work from two perspectives and you don't need another focal point of the image. The star in these images are the buildings, how the orange windows play with the grey-blueish colors of the scene and so on. If you need another focal point, the cars already do it.
But otherwise, it really is a very very nice brake from in your face HDRI and max colors. The grey overcast and yellow windows are one of the best color plays I have seen lately.
