Cluttered Rendering

[Anonymous]

does this look cluttered?

[Dwight]

Not cluttered, but lacks focus. Eye knows not where to rest.

What is the story of the image?

How can you reposition the camera to encapsulate eye movement?

To capture and satisfy the viewer......

Can you adjust lighting to make a subject for the image?

[Anonymous]

Thank you Dwight.

Yes, I see what you mean. The basement needs a facelift. I guess I'm try to show too much at one time. I will post another soon.

Justin

[Rakela Raul]

check the pool table ht

[Anonymous]

Agree on focus in image which has a lot to do with view point.

Working w/ what you have, a couple ideas:
I would dim down the lights in the pool room and enhance the daylight streaming in (including on the floor) along w/ better resolution of the exterior (trees, grass)...this will give the image a foregrd (full contrast and bright), middle (dim, lower contrast) and background.

Then I would take the piece of furniture 'out of the tv' and replace the image with something colorful [complimentary color (near opposite on color wheel) to the interior] and abstract in nature so as to not be a focal point, but instead a counter-point. Add slight reflection to TV so it doesn't look like a poster...good luck.

[Anonymous]

Ok, maybe this one is a little better. Please don't be gentle!

[Dwight]

Changes:

--Little dull - fixed in photoshop
-- cropped to subject ("think like a magazine editor") to eliminate black room on right and tighten focus (while keeping a little of everything from the original view - ceiling also unimportant in rendering - in future, tilt camera down to emphasise more important room elements)
-- did a blue color burn down from upper left
-- did a brown color burn up from foreground
-- overexposed display screen - good light on ceiling from display - are you using my plasma screen trick?
-- added second wine glass because if drinking alone in rec room on saturday night watching blue tinted minority report science fiction or whatever, who needs a glass? Suggest adding cheezits bag made with mesh tool and telephone that is not ringing to clarify the story.

Stuff done well:
-- compatible color scheme adds serenity
-- nice wall texture - where from?
-- suitable designery fabric on suitably designer sofa

A generally superior job acknowledging that in a room with television, the screen is hero.

[Anonymous]

I get a bit confused with the square pattern on the carpet and the square legs on the coffee table. Hard to tell what's what, and to start with I thought it was a weird shadow. So maybe a slightly subtler pattern on the carpet?

Also - Dwight fixed it by cropping, but what's with the ceiling grid? It looks like you've put an otherwise new designery room into an old office building. Which may be the case. In a room full of nice textures and colours the ceiling leaps out at me...

[Anonymous]

Thanks Dwight for the feedback and the help. Yes it is the plasma screen trick(learned a lot from your book). The walls are from the original Artlantis shader library. Is there a good book on Photoshop I can get into?
The basement is very dark and dungeon like, my client wanted a movie/game room. His taste is very plain, clean lines was the way I wanted to go. The accoustical ceiling was his idea, he said he wanted to use what materials he had. But I totally agree with you on the ceiling tiles.

[Dwight]

Check my bibliography.

-- Eismann, Karin. Anything by her.
-- Kelby, Scott. Lot of tricks, but superficial as far as architectural solutions go.
-- Georges Gregory - as said below.

The problem with any of these book is that none provide automatic answers. You need aptitude and experimentation to arrive at architectural solutions. A combination of several overlaid tricks is necessary to make buildings look right.

The good news is that Photoshop Actions can be recoreded for quick application of future treatments.