Peter Guthrie vs Hyperfocal HDRI

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

no horizon is the way to go to avoid any out of scale reflection issues that for sure.....how many times was i badly surprised while viewing final renders

Jeff:
i think the best way to have a good control is to have a double vraydomelight system....one for the light, one for the reflections, works beautifully

I generally model basic proxy geometry and texture it with HDRI as vray light for reflections, Dome is made for diffuse and specular.

[chriserskine]

Haha, I wont use HDR's that dont have that removed because reflections are wildly out of scale. Like a tree suddenly becomes 200 feet tall just because the hdri was taken too close to it.

this is why i drove 12,000 km out in the desert to avoid all that.

[brainspoon]

Just on a side note. I have some HDRI skies too
http://www.hdri-hub.com

The newer ones have a pretty high dynamic range.