Berry Arch Test

For the purpose of re creating Berry Head Arch digitally, I wanted to know could i cause a digital environment to be just as believable as the real place.

I showed a handful of people my digital look of Berry head arch and asked them " Do you think this place is believable?" The majority of them said "yes it does".

I then asked them " Is it believable enough to be a real place?" and again the majority of people said "yes it does". A Couple of people said it looks like a place that belongs in Canada or Australia. Which i thought was interesting because that means Berry Head Arch must have that type of feel or look to it but that is going off onto another topic so i will stick to my purpose with this :P

So the information i gathered was my digital version of Berry Head Arch still looks like it is a real place and it is believable enough.

I then showed people a side by side comparison and this is were it got interesting.

Majority of people believed that the real picture (below) had been photo edited because of how clean cut the stone was on the arch. They believed by looking at my digital version, that that looked more believable and real than the actual real photo.

This was a shock to me as i had took a real photo of a place on earth that doesn't look real and i have turned it into a believable and real place that people do think is real here on earth.

So to answer my question is yes, i had created a more believable environment through digital purposes than the actual real place that exists.