"If I had a camera with me at the right place at the right time, then sure I wouldn't need to have set up the scene on a computer to render it. But part of photorealness is that one does not have all those real objects handy and the location to photograph them in. Fantasy scenes can be photoreal. It's rarely done though. Which is why we all go WOW! when we do see one posted on the world wide web."

I agree
I dont really understand the whole
"Why not just photograph it "
Mantra.
If it is Arch Vis or product visualization
the "Live" or Physical version of the items in the scene typically Dont exist yet and cannot be photographed with a camera
and in the area of "fantasy" many of the subjects
Will Never Exist (in this world at least)
So We often would like to see a "photorealistic"
representation of what we can Imagine

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