Indoor lighting, like in real life?

[schoemann]

Hi there,

 

I´m working about 7 years with 3d software and have much fun at lighting

and rendering. I haven´t an education in architecture neither in photography.

(and as you can read, no good one in english )

 

Since new renderenignes give the user a touch of reality, it´s getting

important to know how good lighting and photography works in the real world.

I read that prof. photographers use reflectors and such other things to get

good looking interiors............... but can´t figure out how.

 

 

Is there anywhere a thread that covers this topic or where to open something

like this?

[Scotty T]

Check out your local bookstore or Amazon.com for Lighting in Photoshop. Even if you don't have PS it covers the characteristics of lighting we should know.

[schoemann]

Check out your local bookstore or Amazon.com for Lighting in Photoshop. Even if you don't have PS it covers the characteristics of lighting we should know.

 

 

Hi Scotty T,

 

thanks for your reply ........

 

.....do you mean "all" real photos looks bad and will be tweaked in ps? ;-)

Yes postwork with ps is also needed but here I mean how real photographers

setup up an interior before they make the images.

[Scotty T]

What is happening is instead of setting up all that lighting equipment when shooting a interior some people will rely on PS to give them control over the look the want.

 

Take model magazines you see on the store counter. No matter how much lighting and props they have there is always someone touching up the photos in post production to get that look they need.

 

Look up in the cg interviews at captivaction..these guys are good and I bet they shed some light on things using post production.Check it out.

[Sawyer]

I couldn't disagree more with Scotty. Take good pictures and you will have to fix less in PS. No professional photographer will tell you to fake in at a shoot then correct it later. There are many great books out there for architectural photography.

 

Look at Amazon:

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/103-1382283-9940606?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs&field-keywords=architectural%20photography&sourceid=Mozilla-search

 

online places to start

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

 

http://www.photo.net/learn/architectural/interior