adp001 posted at 6:30PM Fri, 07 May 2021 - #4418693

One Problem with your render is: Those glasses are too thick. That's the reason while your photo looks so different ("real"). Cycles (and the shaders) are pysical based. The thinner the mesh of your glasses, the more real the rendered image will be.

I actually thought about that as well and also made another glass as a test which is thinner, so will replace the one in the image later on at some point. :)