IMGAE QUALITY AND LIGHTING

[Anonymous]

DID THIS RENDER USING LIGHTWORKS. WHAT DO YOU THINK? ANY ADVISE ON HOW TO IMPROVE IMAGE QUALITY? FOR SOME REASON I THINK THE LIGHTING IS NOT RIGHT!

[Dwight]

a good start.

Use warmer yellow light for sunlight - make sure sun enters the space.
If using the sun object note that the default color - blue - is idiotic.

Use cool light for skylight - blue is right

Less ambient light or whatever you are using to make the space bright.

Walls too reflective and smooth.

[Anonymous]

In the lightwork settings the sun & camera options are turned off..and ambient is set to 40%.

When i turn it down the picture gets dark and the light sources don't light up the room like i want too. i'm using lightworks window lights at full luminance but it still seems dark..any sugestions please on how to luminate the room so it's fairly bright yet cozy?

What light settings will you sugest to me?

[Dwight]

Are you expecting that outside light is enough to illuminate a room?
What would happen in real life?
What would happen if you were assigned to photograph this room for a magazine? Yes. You'd call a real photographer. He'd bring lights.

Try some of this:

Place a general light source up and to the right of the camera. max falloff. yellow.
put one under the floor. about 20 feet down . maxpower blue tint
play with the relative and absolute intensities until you are satisfied - then you have a system for a room.
Shine a window light up to the ceiling from about 7' - yellow.
Shine a window light down from the ceiling from the ceiling height.- mauve
Add more ambience, but save that for last - to make up for deficiencies in the other light.

Share the result.

[Dwight]

And don't forget the magic shaft of sunlite trick.

A shaft of sunlite excuses a dark room because we expect it to be so bright, the rest of the room is darker.

a cheap draftsman's trick.