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My guess is that it can be found in Photoshop.....

It looks tarted to me...

Yeah... it looks like the land of Photoshop.

Surely that's a single townhouse duplicated at different angles, then colorized.

tarted up indeed! harlot!

i agree with everyone else about the fakery, but the "inspiration" could come from a row of about 3 houses that look very much like those on central between haight and page.

I thought, too, of the ones on Central. I have always admired them.

I write from the land of car industry- photography and agencies [in LA ] and would bet my last dollar it doesn't exsist...we do crap like that all the time in my similar field.

On occasion, the car never even went to the actual location... it's stripped in at post-prodt.

its photoshopped, but it *should* be in the Castro.

look, the curtian even hangs the exact same way in all three windows. I would say that this was probably made in a 3D modeling program. Personally, I think I'd go with the pink house, no maybe the blue one...

For myself, I want the yellow one or the orange one. They all remind me of sno-cones for some reason, but in a good way.

I'd love to live on a block like that.

It's definitely not a real street and I'm sure that it's not cgi 3d models (my line of work) because the perspective wouldn't be messed up the way it is if either were the case. I'd bet good money that it's created with one of two ways:
1) using two photos of the same house
2) using single photos of two different, but very similar houses.

Barring color, the left three are the same house (same angle, same mouldings, same highlights and reflections) and the the right three are the same house (the artist changed the middle windowshade in the orange house to make it less repetitive but it's still the same everything else). If it weren't for the missing moulding above the second floor bay of the three left houses, I'd say all six were definitely the same building.

The car is unquestionably comped in since it's being lit from the right while the houses are lit from the left. The faked reflections of the houses on the wet street is a nice touch to bring it altogher, though. Props to the ad artist.

Well to beat a dying topic, its photoshop, 2 houses, left three are the same, right three are the same. You can tell in the mouldings, window sizes, and the highlights from the sun, and also noticed the far left tree, how its foilage is cut harshly off where the blue house was dropped in. As harlie noted they did change the windowshade in the orange house to break up such an obvious pattern, but patterns still exist in the highlights, in a true to life shot done with a real row of houses such as in the image the highlights wouldn't fall on each house in the same spots....anyways...blah. Nice work though

I agree, fake. It sure is pretty though. Does anyone else notice the second story windows on the 3 left side houses? They're all grey. It makes those windows look odd. But that plus the way all the curtains in the right 3 houses are placed the same, kinda gives it away that it's fake.

it's photoshop. you can tell. for one, the colors aren't natural for outdoor light. for another, look at the blinds in the windows. a few of them are exactly the same. you can tell it's just cloned.

houses dont line up properly.

cloned tree - layer messed up frame left where blue house is over the cloned tree.

random bit of roof inbetween green house and yellow house?

still a good pic tho.