office interior

[jim mann]

After a painful transition from Lightscape through Finalrender and Max radiosity I am finally starting to get the hang of Vray. Office interior from a recent project attached



The client wanted to show the studio unit firnished in a "black collar" type scenario.

I work solo, so any C&C appreciated.

Jim

[mcvltd]

Wooooo, that's nice. Nothing really stands out for me to crit! Great job.

[armilla]

Good work Jim, looks like you've got the hang of it to me. Very nice lighting work, and the comping of the exterior is particularly well done. What sort of tweaks have have you done in PS to get that effect on the original background image to achieve that?

Andrew.

[shelsby]

looks really nice jim - no real crits and andrew is right - that exterior image works really well with the scene

steve

[ene.xis]

very nice!specially for a first post!

i rhink the room should be brighter with such a big opening and so many white paint around...and probably a stronger mixture of blue and orange would improve even furthe the quality...
o ther than tha i just think the floor material has too much bump and is way too much refective!

keep posting please!

[ene.xis]

the comping of the exterior is particularly well done

yeah its really spot on!

[fabrizio]

perfect!

[Da_elf]

i agree with everything great job, well matched exterior and interior could be a bit brighter. since the background and interior match so well i dont suggest changing the lighting in 3d. just photoshop it. this way you alter the image as a whole and keep the nice integration between background and interior. It looks physically correct since it looks as though the interior is exposed to give an inbetween between the interior and exterior.

[ene.xis]

It looks physically correct

hum....i doubt it ...not with those fluorescent lights turned on....

[Da_elf]

florescence done come anywhere near the exposure of exterior lighting. i see 3 banks of florescents and if you set up a camera to take a pic the exteior would be way brighter if you exposed for bright lighting inside. hence why professional photographers bring in their own lighting which are way brighter than the average wattage on a florescent light.

[ene.xis]

florescence done come anywhere near the exposure of exterior lighting. i see 3 banks of florescents and if you set up a camera to take a pic the exteior would be way brighter if you exposed for bright lighting inside. hence why professional photographers bring in their own lighting which are way brighter than the average wattage on a florescent light.

not arguing that...
i m in a studio with smaller opening to the exterior and similar area, all furniture and walls are white, artificial light is provided by fluorescent light tubes, and whenever we shoot a piture ourselves we get nice and well lit interiors...thats my only point...

[Da_elf]

true. and if you re-read my post you would see i agree his is kinda dark. im not saying its not. But when you shoot your office point the camera at the window and keep your exposure set for the interior, dont compensate for exterior, your exterior will be really bright. what i suggested was to take the final into photoshop and increase its brightness there that way the background will also get brighter. if the image was rerendered with more light inside and the background didnt change then things wouldnt look right.

[ene.xis]

i understood that...but
what im trying to say here is that it would still not be convincing, u see in order to get a god photo in that room the outside would be clearly more washed out as u said, and maybe u could get away with this in photoshop, but if u take a closer look at the back wall, the exterior lighting bouncing in from that window clearly decays too fast...
so, if u post processed it it would just increase this over exposed effect, and ruin the picture.
i think it might be a problem concerning the color correction method...

i really think this is nearlly there thats why i m rambling

[jim mann]

Thanks all for the C&C.

The background was dropped in in Photoshop. What I tend to do is a version of the image with the exterior as black so that I can layer that over the background using the screen blending mode. That way the bright reflected areas are retained. I took these photos from the correct floor and postion whilst the building was under construction so they slotted in nicely. Other tweaks in photoshop include some playing wth the levels and some painting in of highlights for the monitors and furniture.

In terms of brightness, there are a row of London Plane trees with incredibly dense foliage just outside the windows so the amount of natural light coming in isn't as bright as might appear. At the end of the day, it was a marketing shot so its as much a case of looking the part as being accurate. I know what you mean though.

ene.xis: The floor really does look like that. I found this image that has been taken after completion. Its actually the same unit albeit without the furniture:



Is a resin based finish which looks amazing when done...not sure what it will look like after its been walked on, had chairs dragged across, high heels, etc etc.

Thanks again!

Jim

edit: Looking at this image, I can see that I needed more glow from the fluorescents but reckon I would probably have been asked to take that out or tone it down.

[dibbers]

Nice one Jim, but forget Rooney, it looks like we'll have to rely on Crouch!!!!!!!!!! Eee-aww, ee-aww.