my 2nd work in arch

[Anonymous]

what do u think?
plz ignore background

[Anonymous]

onemore

[Anonymous]

All a bit dark and mysterious for my liking. They don't really tell me a story.

And the guy in the truck has left his lights on.....

[Dwight]

I suspect the darkness to be a screen gamma problem. They probably look fine on the home display.

[Anonymous]

they arent so dark on my display .. but they are quite dark.. that is bcz background is evening

[Dwight]

I know a weak argument when I can't see it.

With all due respect, the images you post show a uniform and excessive darkness that represents poor judgment in representing evening imagery.

The story you want to tell is that the scheme is exciting at sunset.
The images I see are simply hard to read.

I suggest that you use a more subtle approach in epicting this time of day. More illumination in the shadows....

Say this was a real building and you were a professional photographer tasked with depicting it. You most certainly would not provide your client with hard-to-see images.

[Dwight]

Simple Levels adjustment

[TomWaltz]

It looks like the night level I was playing on Ghost Recon over the holiday.

Dwight's right. It's one thing to show a night/evening shot with dramatic lighting or a subtle romantic effect. It's another to have a building that you cannot really see and have to squint to make out the detail.

[TomWaltz]

Dwight wrote:
Simple Levels adjustment

ah, ah, the glare!!!

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
The story you want to tell is that the scheme is exciting at sunset. The images I see are simply hard to read.

I suggest that you use a more subtle approach in epicting this time of day. More illumination in the shadows....

Words of wisdom from the master! .....I'm still intimidated to do evening representations a have to admit. I'm still trying to improve my happy 'sunny day' representations.

Dwight, for when I do get into dramatic evening renderings, what sun color and ambient color in (archicad's built-in sun) do you recommend as a starting point if I were to use the 'basic' lighting realm technique?

Thank you sir!

[Dwight]

Photographers use the "magic hour" after sunset when there's still enough light in the sky to define it.

When you have a background photo, that tells you the sun color because you sample the white (now golden) areas of the photo for that info. I like to use mauve or blue for ambient, but really good sunset background photos usually have some reflective cloud in them to warm the ambient condition.

And use lots of ambient to fill those deep shadows - low sun angle makes it tricky.

So it is guided by the background context as much as anything.