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Hi Alex, Yes what you said is exactly what I meant replying to Thomas especially on interiors. For now I'm working on my portfolio for Architectural Photography, luckily I'm an architect myself so I can shoot some of the interiors I did in the past. For those of you interested on my work you can follow updates on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/aleguida

Yes, what amazes me is how the average architectural photography nowadays is more towards renderings and high quality renderings are more towards photography.

Yes the idea is to offer the best I can on both services, I think I can produce good images both visuals and photography...my only doubt is the maket...but I will not know untill I'try

Thank you Alexis/Francisco/Jesper for your replies, First of all I'd like to explain that I'm aware of the differences between CGI and photography, actually my background is more towards photography than visualisation but in these years I only worked professionaly on CGI and never thought to offer such service to clients. What I miss for sure is how to handle a task from start to finish in architectural photography as it requires a different schedule, contract, copyright agreements and technicalities that are different from what I usally do for visuals. Saying that, I don't know if marketing wise it works or not. As told on previous posts could be a nice service for clients...they have to ask just to one person/studio for all the imagery they need for built/unbilt projects. My worry is that clients could also be a bit confused on what you are offering and maybe they think that is better to hire one professional for visuals and another for photography. At the end is your work that speeks for you so a client should be able to understand if you can manage both but maybe the trend is to ask it to someone who does only one. As regards gear I think that nowadays cameras are really good and with an investment on two TS lenses you should be able to offer good images, technically speaking. @Jesper I saw your website and I don't see a section related to architectural photography, do you offer this service occasionally when required or do you market it separately?

That's absolutely true. Would be interesting hearing from someone doing both professionaly. I'm pretty sure that big agencies offer either visuals and photos but never found a freelance (like me) doing both.

Hi, Is there anyone offering both services? Photography+Visualizations? I'd like to start my path on Architectural Photography as service for clients but I already make visualizations. I'm wondering if it is wise to mix the two services as this could be seen not very professional but on the other end the target is the same. any experience on that? thank you Alessandro

Hi Devin, that's really weird, I tested same scene with GTX Titan Black and quadro k4000 and had the same result...as you suggested I'll try to contact NVIDIA to figure it out. thanks Ale

Hi Stephen, thank you for your reply. As I wrote it seems is a driver issue but I can't belive I can't make it working

Ok, made few tests...seems that is Nitrous that gives problems, in Direct3D everything works fine. Anyone had problems with Nitrous? I would be happy to make it working...

Hi, I'm working in a scene (1.157.000 polys) on a pretty decent machine (3930K+32Gb Ram+ k4000 + GTX Balck Titan). I think that the scene itself is not that complex, in the viewports workflow is really fluid but somehow handle this scene is frustrating: - It takes up to 6 minutes just to open - After a render in Vray I have to wait more than a minute to continue as Max simply freezes and I can't do anything - Even the material editor is slow, for every change I make to the materal I have to wait few seconds because Max is thinking again Do you think is normal or I missing something?? thank you! Ale

thank you Ernest, sorry I didn't understand if it is easier/better to use Cinema for those works, I read that Max had some improvements to integrate the workflow into After Effects but I was wondering if it worths to have a look to Cinema. sorry I'm just trying to understand what could be the most effective path to learn things

Does it worth to learn Cinema 4D for those kind of works? Max is not good enough to achive a good result? what do you mean? I have Adobe CC

Hi Francisco, thank you very much I will ask my client to try this option with FBX, it seems so strange to me that Cinema can't export a model with textures.

Hi Francisco, Thank you for your reply, Is there any option that you check while exporting? We tried .3ds, .fbx and .obj but any of them worked with maps. I tried also to find some solution on internet but without lucky. The problem is also that I have to tell to my client what to do as I can't exporting myself the model

Hi, I have to import a file created in Cinema in Max. My client works with Cinema and he tried to export different files: .3ds, .fbx, .dae the problem is that when I open it in Max all the materials miss their maps. Is there a proper way to export a file from Cinema with all the maps? thank you