Daylight and Dusk

[Syclone1]

In addition to the other two comments I would also increase the colour temp in the camera settings to make the shadows just a little bit warmer, looking at the house next door the shadows are a bit warmer than the rendered house. Keep up the great work.

[OPEN_RANGE]

Thank you for your good eye and suggestions. How would you suggest to darken shadows? I'm using linear work flow and vray sun/sky. Would you darken shadows in post by using vray shadow render element or ......?

[OPEN_RANGE]

I re-shot the background photo (at dusk) a couple of months ago and finally got the time to go back and try to improve this dusk version. It's come a long way from what I started with. Trying to represent dusk with the sunny full daylight background photo just did not work, no matter how much tweaking in pshop. Thanks to all who gave helpful comments and advice!

[squintnic]

that looks 100% better. nice work

[OPEN_RANGE]

Thank you for your review!

[glorybound]

Much, much nicer. Maybe, darken the interior more like the house to the right. Good job!

[OPEN_RANGE]

Agreed.

Taking a new photo was key. I also changed the hdri to one that did not have as much orange/redish sunset glow.

Thank you for your review and input along the way!