Fitness center

[pvanhaitsma]

This is something I'm working on to show use of a gym equipment model collection. I saw and image like this online and wanted to try and recreate it. C&C welcome.

[joconnell]

Brighten it up a lot and blow out the interior - photographically you can't get an exposure where you have detail in the interior and exterior at the same time with windows that small - the space at the minute looks a little gloomy especially considering how sunny it is outside - it'd be worth getting a photo from flickr or getty images close to how you want the end result to look as a guide to aim towards.

Might be worth doing a simpler studio environment for the model collection to - it'd be easier for people to imagine what they'd be like in a variety of circumstances.

[pvanhaitsma]

joconnell-You're right it really needs to be brighter. As for the studio environment, we'll have renders of more simple setting to show off models and individual model renders. This is going to be more of a glamour shot to show the models in a scene, not just to focus on the models. Not sure if that makes sense.

[pvanhaitsma]

Messed around a little in photoshop here is a new image. Not sure what to think of it yet, still messing with it.

[zoranm]

If you want to show the equipment, you might consider changing the tactics a bit. When I look at the image for the first time I spend more tim looking into the elaborate roof structure and outdoors than the equipmet itself.
You have too much distructions from your primary target. You might think of calming down the environment or having a better crop etc.. maybe concentrate on one or two machines and DOF the rest?

Hope this helps and good luck

zoran

[pvanhaitsma]

zoranm-With this image I'm really I guess trying to show how the models would fit into the scene, not really focused completely on the the models themselves. When you make a gym render for a client the focus is the scene, not necessarily the equipment. I see your point with the showing off the models though, there will be a lot of other images for that. This is more the 'how can these models fill your scene' image.