A custom home in the mountains. The renderings will be used for per-construction marketing.
I’m sending this exterior out for client approval and starting on an interior view that will be of the Living/Dining/Kitchen looking out the large windows over the garage. If it works out the view will show two waterfalls in the distance.
Any critique or comments are much appreciated.
re: site photo - do you have Lightroom? There’s a great picker tool that lets you adjust hue / saturation / luminance on select color parts of your photo. Photoshop might have something similar, like using Select / Color Range to apply isolated Hue/Saturation effects to get colors you want. I wasn’t bothered by any blurring of the leaves in motion.
re: aspect ratio, if you want to maintain the aspect ratio - opening the view up on the top and sides as well might work. But it’s a balancing act if the developer wants to be tight in on their project. It’s fine to leave the view as is, I think the pink/ yellowish green tint to the image is the biggest distraction to me.
Very cool site, I’d want to hike to that waterfall
Thank you Brendan. I showed the version with expanded sky to the client and he immediately did not like it. He is very psyched on the close in/tight view so that’s what will be used. I don’t have light room but I am familiar with selecting/adjusting color ranges in photoshop.
I wish I could give you a good critique to improve. While it is pretty good, there is something that bothers me with the back image. It is not that it is huge, it seems like it is not well balanced with the interior in terms of lines and lighting. In the interior you are getting hot-spots yet the exterior is perfectly exposure balanced… if anything it should be a bit the other way, and thus it is throwing it off a bit. Try changing the camera settings to decrease the exposure time. Also, I’d try to maybe use exponential instead of Reinhardt and in Photoshop try adjusting the contrast. Lastly, here are a couple of places you can check architectural photography which will help you get the correct idea in mind. Hope that helps! Cheers!
Do like them a lot more, but the outside… does it not feel a bit tilted? or maybe is just be being super critical now… otherwise I do like them and the interior is a bit better. I realize the links you gave me, there is no direct sun light coming into the windows, I have done this a few times in some of my renderings, when the sun just does not seem to be helping… It creates a very nice mood lighting.
Padre - thanks once again or your valuable comments and observations. It does seem to suggest some forward motion but it’s not actually tilted. The model geometry is aligned to world Z. The camera is pointed up a bit but I am using perspective correction to straighten the vertical.
I appreciate your comment about not having any sun light streaming in. I’m going to try that. Thanks!
Personally, like it a lot better!
agreed padre. and much thanks to you for your helpful feedback
