Caesarstone Table Design Competition

[schultzeworks]

Question re: curve

Micha: great suggestion, but it took me a little while to figure out what you are saying. To confirm, are you saying to make the top-right curve more "S"-shaped; with a similar curve as I have already shown at the bottom-left?

Please confirm and I'll give that a try.

[Micha_cg]

Re: Caesarstone Table Design Competition

Yes, a S shape could be good. Most I use a flat curve at the upper part only and a little bit shift the lower end. Here an image from my training script.

Flatten the lower part can cause a higher contrast, but if this isn't needed, than I try to keep the middle part of the curve straight linear, only flatten the upper part.

marked field is without curve correction

[schultzeworks]

Good tip from Micha

Here's where Micha's tip helped me discover another rule : if a scene is improperly lit, then the use of an "S-shaped curve" does not work well... so THATS your cue that you need to balance the lighting. I have some new examples coming up soon.

[Micha_cg]

Re: Caesarstone Table Design Competition

I'm curious what you find. I don't use the same curve correction allways, often I fine adjust it like it is needed for the rendering.

[schultzeworks]

New image



The problem I had with some of my earlier gamma-corrected renders was simple over-lighting. This resulted in blow-outs in the lighter detailed areas. The new image above uses an 'S-shaped' correction curve to both adjust the image as well as function as a test for the lighting. By test, I mean that if there is not an 'S' shape required (which varies) then my balance is probably off.

[schultzeworks]

New Competition

I am using this humble little furniture + surface system as a marketing tool, or more appropriately, a marketing hammer. I've continued to develop and refine the design and it's now entered into another competition; this one sponsored by DWR. In addition, I have started building the first prototype and will be sharing images and progress here, as well as on my new blog (as soon as it is ready.)