Good context. But the fact is, a great many people – perhaps even the majority of people – are quite used to looking at a photograph and fully trusting that it

Good context. But the fact is, a great many people – perhaps even the majority of people – are quite used to looking at a photograph and fully trusting that it depicts something which actually happened. As they say, seeing is believing. Even with CGI being what it has been since the 70s, it's still appropriate to apply Occam's Razor in many cases, and to simply say that because it looks real, it probably is.