need help & suggestions

[bernhard]

Hello friends of vray & 3d.

I could see a very nice photo on the internet, I woould like to reproduce in 3d. Well, I've never done any specific studio shot like you can see on this image, but it would be cool if I could reproduce something specific like shown on this image here:



Thank you very much for every little help and all your suggestions,
bernhard

[joconnell]

Seems like a spherical light on each side judging by the reflections or possibly a white surface on either side of the phones with a light shining towards each - if you don't point a light directly towards an object but instead aim it towards a white card that bounces light towards the object you get softer results.

[FlytE]

do a quick search for 'zulibans studio setup' ... It might answer a few of your questions.

[bernhard]

hmm

thank you FlytE, but it seems to be that his scene file is not line anymore...

here is the thread:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...light=zulibans

but I can't dowload the zip file.....

@joconnell:
yep, good idea, that's pretty much what professional photgraphers using for making studio shots.... I will try....

bernhard

[bernhard]

hmm..

that's now pretty interesting... I've tried to get softer reflections, so i've positioned the lights against a plane, bouncing back from there to the object....

but you can clearly see a very hard reflection.....
just a quick test render:



Hmm, so is there a way to blur the lightsource ?

thx for every little help,
bernhard

[Dynedain]

Add a glow effect in post.... otherwise known as "Specular Bloom"

[Dynedain]

Also, if you're trying to go the full photography route and avoid post effects.... you could bounce the light off a plane, just make the plane big enough that it can capture the full falloff of the light... and make sure to turn your light invisible

[alexthg]

Try searching for "light tent" in google image. Might help in setting your studio lights.

[DaForce]

I have that file somewhere.. being the packrat that I am.

Let me see if i can find it.

[^Lele^]

Add a slight glossiness to your material's reflection.
0.995 might do.
It will blur the distant stuff, and keep crisp-ish the closer one

[DaForce]

http://rapidshare.com/files/46271697...up_zuliban.rar

there ya go

[bernhard]

thank you

Thank you for all your efforts, I really appreciate that.

I was looking at zulibans setup - and I think it's very good, but I could not reach what I wanted. So I decided to make one more test.

As I said before, I don't wanted to use any glossy effect in the material settings, instead of this, I wanted to find a way to get a nice and blurry light reflection on a pure high reflective chrome material.

Here is the result:


I've used 3 lightsources, white, blue, orange in a sphere.
The lights are planes and targeting against the inner-surface of the sphere, so the light bounces from that wall back to the object.

Hmm, well, indirect light source

ok, now I will try some other material tests, but I am not really sure if that will fit to the photo I've posted above.

thx for every little help
I really appreciate that much,
bernhard

[joconnell]

okay if you want to get a softer result in that teapot, put a white plane in the position of the light, then put your light in between the teapot and the plane. Point your light towards the plane so that you get a hotspot and a bit of falloff on the centre of the plane - the teapot will reflect the hot centre of the light gradually fading off to the edges of the plane and it'll also bounce light back towards the teapot.

[bernhard]

thank you

Thank you for all your help, I really appreciate that:

here is the final image, I had to do for my client: