There isn’t enough distance between them for that to be a factor, and even so the door would already have to be enormous to produce that effect. In short, you can’t make an object behind another object appear larger than an object in front of it via any kind of optical trickery. That’s not how distance works. You can make your foreground object appear larger relative to the background object by playing with foreshortening, which is exactly the opposite of what’s being proposed here.
You can do the thing with the moon at terrestrial scales and distances because it’s the size of the moon, and very far away. Since the apparent diminishing in size of an object is roughly geometric in relationship to its distance from you, how far away you are from a terrestrial subject (say, a person) will influence the apparent size of that subject much more than it will the apparent size of the moon, which unless you own a rocketship will always be basically the same distance away from you proportionally speaking.
Given that other posters have found the physical location and it more or less jives with the background, I’m leaning towards someone doing a cut-and-paste job to doctor a photograph. Your theory could also be valid.
There isn’t enough distance between them for that to be a factor, and even so the door would already have to be enormous to produce that effect. In short, you can’t make an object behind another object appear larger than an object in front of it via any kind of optical trickery. That’s not how distance works. You can make your foreground object appear larger relative to the background object by playing with foreshortening, which is exactly the opposite of what’s being proposed here.
You can do the thing with the moon at terrestrial scales and distances because it’s the size of the moon, and very far away. Since the apparent diminishing in size of an object is roughly geometric in relationship to its distance from you, how far away you are from a terrestrial subject (say, a person) will influence the apparent size of that subject much more than it will the apparent size of the moon, which unless you own a rocketship will always be basically the same distance away from you proportionally speaking.
Parallax depends on the focal length of the lens, and distance from the photographer. This looks real to me.
I’d wager it’s more likely staged with a wife of an ice agent and a photographer than AI.
Given that other posters have found the physical location and it more or less jives with the background, I’m leaning towards someone doing a cut-and-paste job to doctor a photograph. Your theory could also be valid.