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In the bottom image above you can see the general massing and scale of buildings. I would then find architecture to place onto this face. I try to find high res images of architecture and other items and then distort them to fit the perspective. When using architecture its best to find clean facades without obstructions, such as trees and utilities. Here is the original image used to create the left portion of the architecture in the second image. It was close to the perspective, but it still took a considerable amount of the distortion to get it to scale and perspective. As well as some cleaning to remove the sign…
After bringing in the buildings lighting is key. Its best to exaggerate the lights and darks of building faces.
Landscape is the hardest thing to obtain and place. It’s all about modeling the LS into your scene, taking advantage of lights and darks, cutting out the landscape where needed and erasing with a feathered brush, i.e. the tree foliage in the foreground already has sky behind it. No need to cut out every leaf. Just blend its sky into yours.
All other items just take time to find and cut out. Furnishings and people are easy. Items with an extended perspective, such as cars, benches and bikes (linear items), need to be in the correct perspective or close to it.
I find it too time consuming to waste time using a complex modeling program and rendering engine to create the perfect scene with correct lighting, materials and landscape. Often rendering times can take some serious time and if you don’t like it, you make a minor tweak and wait again….Rather I produce a quick skecthcup model (if needed for scale and more difficult perspective) and then render in photoshop. Sometimes I just use an existing image and work directly overtop. I prefer to create the lighting by eye and over exaggerate when possible. Occasionally if the architecture is designed and already modeled I will use Vray (takes 10 minutes) to export and then import that into Photoshop. Usually I just fake in the architecture from collaged imagery. Below are some examples.
