Modern Private Kitchen

[PGD]

Hello all,

Here's a private house project I'm working on at the moment.

What do you think to it? Can you offer any advice on how I can make this look 'better'?

Really trying to learn and push the quality of my images up with this one, as it's rare I see any development time these days. So any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

[urbanite]

As you do have many openings I would stick to natural/exterior light.

[PGD]

I'm not against that idea. Though I've tried to go for the photographic approach with this one and added a couple of softboxes to add the light.

If I was to go oh-naturel with this, how would you light it? Vray planes over the openings set to 'Skylight portal' and then knock the camera exposure down?

This is lit with a Vray Sun and Sky btw.

[PGD]

I re-lit the scene to make much more use of the natural light. I've still used artificial light in there, but the light levels are much lower. Do we think I need to switch all artifical light off?

Also renderd a couple of other views too - C&C very welcome

[tsvetan.geshev]

I think you have some splotches on the ceiling and walls from the GI or this is just a texture?

[glorybound]

It looks really good. You might need to random the wood pattern on the cabinets. Also, some burnt out spots; have you tried tone mapping for that?

[PGD]

Thanks for the replies folks

The walls do have a texture on them, but it's far too pronounced isn't it. Especially for the modern feel were going for. I'll look to reduce the effect of that.

Burnt out spots - did you mean the light on the walls? The table top is a little burnt too, and the roof light is very burnt out now I've dropped the camera exposure right down. I don't know how I'd go about tone mapping in a render tbh. With a photo I'd layer different exposures over each other, is that the process here?

The random wood pattern on the cabinets is a good shout, but how would I go about this? This is a simply a texture applied at the moment..

One further note, these images are all made up from One RGB image, with a few adjustments applied with Adobe Camera RAW, then a touch of Photoshop. No render passes or anything fancy - I dont know how

[alexyork]

For the wood just randomise the UVP map translation for each face/cabinet. In other words use a separate UVWMap modifier on each one and shift it about a bit until it looks different.

[PGD]

Ah ok, I'll do that

Is it common practice to slightly nudge the corner points of the doors too, to suggest they don't fit absolutely perfectly?

[alexyork]

Ah ok, I'll do that

Is it common practice to slightly nudge the corner points of the doors too, to suggest they don't fit absolutely perfectly?

I wouldn't go that far, personally. Well-fitted modern units should be more or less perfectly aligned. But could be worth trying I guess.

[PGD]

Fair enough. I was meaning tiny amounts, like a door closing 1-2mm off line with the next door. This probably wouldn't show up at all here, but on a view which picked up some reflection... But, as it'll not show up anyway I'll leave that one alone.