What do you think, are these renderings?
http://www.hpadesigngroup.com/portfolio.php?project\_id=12162&project\_type=id
Hi Bobby
I had a quick look and from the 1st image there are elements that makes it look like a rendering. For example the floor tiles seem to be very perfectly straight and the timber looks the same colour and also very straight. However the tassles of the rug on the floor and the zip of pillow on the foreground, the deformation of the other cushions and the details of the seems in the couch and the texture itself, convinced me the first image is a photo. (The ceiling fan seems to be going at very high speed 
Hmmm I had a look at the 2,3 and 4th image also and jip, I reckon they all photos.
Regards,
Morne
I had a look at the other images from their portfolio section. I’d say they are all photographs even though some do have a rendering feeling, but I think that is just the camera flash and lighting they use and they didnt intend for some to look like renders, it just so happen that some do. Some nice photos, some good reference pics for us to try and get same feeling in our renderings I think.
That’s tricky; these particular ones look more like renderings than photographs, don’t know about the rest of the site.
Best regards,
Vlado
Definitely photos. A bit tricky, but photos. Everything is unique. Could be renders though, since this level of realism can be made, but I doubt that someone would pay for that immerse amount of work.
Best regards,
A.
Yep, photos, unless every texture is unwrapped and hand painted.
badly done photos for sure…
Renderings?
How did you figure that out?
open image in photoshop and do a file> file info>camera data,
the Status of the project being ‘complete’ was also an indicator,
Morbid Angel:
Are you being serious? You think these photos are badly done?
I thought they were not too bad. Only two things bother me the first being the ligthing look a bit suspect, but worse than that, I hate it when people take photos or do renders and the lens is so wide that forgeground stuff (and sometimes the whole image) distorts so much that you think when you look at the picture - man, I still haven’t recovered from last night’s party!
Kind Regards,
Morne
Yup, definitely not the best work of photography. This is probably why you thought these were photos in the first place. Lighting is flat, almost like an exponential color mapping burnout. The lack of contrast and drama creates this rendered look. And talk about bad photos, F/18 for what? 
lol that’s a hell lot of diffraction for 17mm.
Best regards,
A.
yep Im pretty serious.
seems I still have a lot to learn. Well, that’s why I’m here
Bobby - the first shot looks very like an early stage image you posted of a big fireplace and room a while back - an old people 's home I think?
is that why you want to know if they got it done in 3d or took pics later?!
I think they’re just heavily retouched photos, giving them that ‘rendering’ feeling as a lot of the imperfections have been removed.
Photo?
I got a call from them for some 3D work. I checked out their web page and I saw the images. I thought they were either really good renderings or really poor photos. One of the lobby photos show extreme tiling on the floor… I have never seen floor covering look like that.
I have seen tiling happen a lot in real life. Many of these fake stone companies only make 9-10 different “stones” in each pattern. So even when they are randomly placed it looks tiled because your eye notices that there is only 1 really big stone shape. There is one place that has this happening at the freeway and its so surreal to drive by because it looks cg. Every time I drive by I get into this logic loop where at first I think “Hey I can see the tiling here” then I realize it not a rendering.
Hehe, the local health center in my town has a fake marble like flooring that has the same annoying pattern on every single tile. The clean and boring walls and the very, very sharp spotlights used to light the windowless place make it even more frustrating. I hate going there, like illness was not bad enough, I have to wait hours in a bad render.
Best regards,
A.
Right click an image in Explorer > Properties > Summary tab > Advanced
See above for an easier way 
If it were renderings, they’d be pretty damn good…