Just take a look at [this picture](https://www.looksmartmodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lamborghini-huracan-performante-spyder_03.jpg), you can tell immediately that its a model car even though there is nothing in the picture to compare its size to. My guess is that the paint isn’t authentic to our eyes, but are there other reasons as well?
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As someone else said, you can tell because of the tilt-shift effect.
But I wanted to add, I know nothing about cars, absolutely nothing, you’d think I’d never seen one in my life, all cars are boxes with wheels to me. But I can still tell this is a model and not a real car.
So its not the paint, or the material or the connection of this part to that part. Even someone like me who has no idea about these things can tell the difference.
It is purely the photographical effect. And nothing else.
A professional photographer can make a model look real as well. This is how we get movies like Lord of the Rings.
When the photographer knows how to use lighting, depth of field and angles, they can make a model look real and make something real, look like a model.
Its nothing else but photography.
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