Update. My shadows are coming out way to dark, so I’ll have to play with that. It might be accurate, but it’s too dark. I am enjoying V-Ray 3; the presets are awesome.
I looked at the shadows on my 27" Thunderbolt and they look good. I guess my workstation monitor is showing it a little dark. I do have to put more love into the landscape. The client didn’t want to pay for me doing landscape, but it adds to the image, so I am trying to keep it simple.
I wouldn’t make the shadows any brighter. I think they’re too bright as they are. I’ll never understand people’s (mostly architect’s) petrification of shadows. Architects always bang on about “describing form” and blah blah blah, but is this not exactly what shadow and light does?
shadows, light, deliciousness: http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/
Nice! A agree, way to bright, but he wanted to see the siding around the house 
It’s funny. I have my monitor in front of a window. It was a beautiful sunny and clear day today, with snow. I had to put some light blocking curtains up. it wasn’t my monitor, it was the bright window.
amen to that. So annoying!!
Nothing beats my experience of having an architect giving me RAL colours for their multi-coloured facade, then once I delivered, they complained that the colours were wrong; ie brighter and darker. I tried to explain that when you reflect the sky, it may make the panels appear lighter, and when in shade, they may be darker… but no, I was wrong. I ended up delivering masks for each colour so they could adjust in photoshop to suit their own preferences with. They proceeded to adjust the rendered colours to match the RAL colours EXACTLY… ie paint fill each mask with the RAL colour. You can only imagine my disbelief when they showed me the result, even more so when it was delivered with the look of smug self satisfaction akin to a cat proudly presenting you with the corpse of your pet budgie.
I face nonsense regularely, and the bright shadows even more !
Typical evolution of a project :
Me : Send first previews
Architect : Wow wow wow, why aren’t all façades evenly lit ? There’s one in the light and another in the shadow
Me : That’s to have contrast and it helps define and read the volumes.
A : No no, put the sun right behind the camera so that everything is in the light
Me : Are you SURE ? it will make evrything flat
A : Yes of course, we can’t present a building with a façade in the shadow !
Me : Send a new view with everything lit
A : Hmm, everything is so flat, there is no punch to this image, it’s dull, etc, etc.
Me : Yeah, maybe we should bring back those shadows then ?
A : Ok, but make them very faint, very light, a very, very light gray please
Me : I do what they want, send the image
A : It doesn’t look very realistic
Me: REALLY ??
LOL yup, I get the same here…
Yes, me too. Or, “why doesn’t my image look as good as the ones in your portfolio?” Well, because you broke all the rules I had in place!
Thx for the stories. Its always refreshing to see that everybody here has to deal with people like that.
Not shadows related but recently a client was evaluating my renders on a broken/miss calibrated monitor (everything had a green tint) which I didn’t know and thus he was constantly complaining about the colors in the renders. 
Hahaha; almost died laughing, this is EXACTLY what I experience everyday, makes me want to either throw myself out of the window or the man/woman spilling this nonsense. All of my images have been through the idiot filter unfortunately. I can never present the work in a decent portfolio because the further it progresses and receives bullshit comments, the uglier it gets. I think out of the 100 projects I did I can show 5 that haven’t changed.
Going back to your rendering Bobby… I noticed that the latest renderings that you posted are not as realistic as your past work(exteriors)…This one included!
maybe is the time frame of the projects but they don’t look like your renderings.
Fernando
Bobby, try and add some blue and cyan to your highlights, then add some red and yellow to your shadows
Since you told me that several months ago, I do that to all my images now.[quote=“elivnA, post:36, topic:46777, username:elivnA”]
Bobby, try and add some blue and cyan to your highlights, then add some red and yellow to your shadows
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It’s the architect driving things. I’ll post an update tomorrow morning, which is when it’s due. He approved the last one I posted as perfect! I might get hell, but I have since changed it a lot and he’ll be getting a “typical” Bobby rendering tomorrow morning.[quote=“vlado, username:vlado”]
Going back to your rendering Bobby… I noticed that the latest renderings that you posted are not as realistic as your past work(exteriors)…This one included!
maybe is the time frame of the projects but they don’t look like your renderings.
Fernando
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For dusk shots it should be reversed
Here is an update. Something is broken; reflections are way off. I tried everything with the glass, but I am getting a muddy reflection and the copper roof is coming off dirty, too. This has color corrections applied in PS, but out of V-Ray, it’s brown; both glass and copper. Also, the copper roof has some strange banding on the left.
