Help with lighting

[Anonymous]

Recent graduate! Need some help. I am tring to set off the columns of the house, but try to bring attention to the front door.

Any comments would be great!


Justin

[Dwight]

You might consider some of the things said about Neil Robinson's recent image post.

But for you:

Technical:

Your image misses using the important undersun to eliminate "Black soffit" disease on arches when there is no uplighting.

Take a sun object, make its setting manual and place it at -90 degrees altitude to create the "undersun." Shadow "off."

Compositional:

-- this image would benefit from a lower sun angle to keep the porch from being so uniformly dark, even though you have placed lighting there.

-- Never compose a scene where the front door isn't inviting, especially by putting barriers to the eye being led to the doorway.

These things are all covered in more detail on pages 27-36 (Quick Start Guide) of the book "LightWorks in ArchiCAD."
(Hint - several other things in that book can speed anyone to improved LightWorks skill.)

[Anonymous]

Made the changes suggested and moved the camera angle. Do you think it is a little too bright?

[Dwight]

Those porch downlites are making a kind of murkiness.

Turn up your ambient to around 50 and make it yellowish.

Your skylite - turn off shadows....