Dan Flavin photo match

[peterguthrie]

Something I did for fun ages ago (partly as a response to an indirect challenge by pixelab!)

I took the photo in the modern museum of art in Fort Worth a couple of years ago.

No post production at all, but looking at it again with fresh eyes I should have tweaked the color balance in the vrayphysical camera.

Can anyone tell me what the strange 2nd reflection is in the photo? caustics?

[gilpo]

Looks almost like a lens flare since it's perfectly parallel to the light bulb. I can't see anything else that would cause it.

Looks like you need to make your baseboard (skirting) a tad darker. The rest looks good though.

[Morbid Angel]

thats a nice test, you got a scene for that? for experimenting? Yeah the reflection looks like lens artifact to me.

[peterguthrie]

Thanks guys. Lens flare. You must be right. Never thought of that because you don't often see lens flares shaped like that!

I can share the scene if you are interested... although it might be an arroway floor texture, I'll need to check because I can't remember right now.

[add101]

nicely done!
i'd say second one is the real one

i think the skirting is lighter because it is less recessed, rather than the material colour.

nice study

[bakbek]

I remember that one! i keep visiting your website since then. took me some time to decide which is real and which is not (i thought your flare comment was just a little joke on us)

one thing... the bump & gloss on the flooring suggest that it is CG, but this is really after a long look and examination of both images. nothing one can pick up right away. the real floor seems more soft on the edges of planks.

i wouldn't mind having that scene to play with, i have all arroway textures regardless so no problem with that.

[peterguthrie]

Here's the max2009 file. I used wood-28 from the arroway collection, but mucked about with the levels on the reflection map (reduced the contrast).