Does this look shopped?

Define shoppped?

Has t been heavily processed in photoshop? Yes
Has it been over processed? Yes.

Is it a collage of multiple photos? Depends, it could well be an HDR from bracketed exposures.

Were the people cut and pasted in? Probably not but it is hard to tell.
 
I doubt very much its a copy/paste; rather a touch heavy on the processing/tonemapping. I think they have just masked certain areas and processed, which collectively do not work together. It probably could be a much nicer image if it was more natural.
 
The lighting on the people doesn't match the rear illumination of the sun. Even if it were HDR the results would be different.
 
i've got two pictures where the sun has made it look as though its 2d, with the foreground shopped in - and it wasnt in either case. And the shot of the pantheon, i took one JUST like that about 10 years ago - not a very high standard imo.
 
It definitely looks oddly lit, like she has a very dark shadow between her legs but with such a strong backlight with HDR or fill flash, that looks wrong. That shadow wouldn't remain that dark with the rest of them so perfectly lit if you were applying HDR or fill flash to combat such a ridiculously strong back light.

All the corn seems to lit from the right with shadowing on the left, which is how the people seem to be lit to me.

I also think the edging of the people and the corn just has a slightly 'unnatural' feel/look to it, reminds me of when i've replaced large areas of background, it's hard to make the edging of your foreground remain 'natural' looking.

So either the picture was a silhouette with a huge amount of very right hand side biased fill flash and maybe a bit of HDR or the interesting sky was dropped in at a later date. I reckon the latter.

edit - looking again, i'm not sure the corn tallies with the people as much as I initially thought, so maybe an amalgamation of 3 pictures or perhaps just the people were dropped in. There is no way on earth though I think you could create such harsh shadowing like that on people with fill flash/HDR whilst being backlit by the sun.
 
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Doesn't look right to be honest.

If it was HDR with bracketed exposures, the people and the grass would have moved, unless he has cropped out the sky from the brightest exposure and mixed them together.

Either way, this is not just one image, no way in hell would the people be that bright and the sky that dark in one image without stupendous noise (even at ISO100!)

Although rubbish photo IMO :/
 
No way is that one one image imo.

The two girls simply dont look like they are in the same type of lighting as the sunset in the background should suggest.

Looks like some cheesy holiday brochure picture tbh.
 
I'm thinking it could be two (or more) shots merged together, all shot from the same place however. I'm thinking shoot the background and maybe people (with fill flash) and then the wheat coming from a seperate shot and being planted on the front (as it would probably have ended up with some fill flash on). I can't see how they got the flash like that without some of it spilling on to the wheat in the foreground.

I've done simiar a few times with star trails. Got the final image of the stars then chosen the best foreground and processed individually, then stuck on the background photo.
 
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