How to improve my interior pics?

[henrikaberg]

Hey,

I'm doing interior pictures with 3ds max, vray and photoshop. Those pics are made for advance sale to sell apartment that is under renovation. I'm comparing my pics to professionals and I would like to know how to make my pics as clear, bright and high-class as those professional pics.

 

My pics and the ones that I compared are attached.

 

I appreciate all help given

Thank you in advance!

[Francisco Penaloza]

Hi Harriet,

Your questions is a little more complex to answer than just give you some tip how to do this or that. to do professional looking images ,required high skill level not only on the 3D side but also in Photoshop, composition, and color theory. The one thing you can do is and read "Making of" there is hundreds on the internet, to learn different approach to different scenes, read the manual of your 3D software, and rendering software, try to understand how it work and learn how to bend the rules to make the image the way you need it.

Comparing the images that you submitted, the first thing that pop to me is the difference in details. Your Images look good, as start point, but if you take a look at your reference images there is a lot of details missing, elements and details in textures, also you can see a dynamic in the colors, your image has an even illumination, the other image have a color variance and accents.

It is always better to compare 3D rendering to real photography, do not try to compare to other renderings, if you want to learn how to fake reality, your goal has to be reality not a faked image.

Practice, practice, practice.

[heni30]

It just seems very mono-tone, mono-color.

 

There are ALWAYS opportunities to add contrast and color. Here are some fast, crude tweaks:

 

Your fridge looks bumpy - I would add a nice fridge and oven in Photoshop; especially since they are facing frontally.

Edited April 6, 2015 by heni30

[notamondayfan]

Lighting and contrast, then models and materials.

 

Breakdown what makes a good photo, and try to replicate it.

[artmaknev]

The camera angle is very important, from what I see on your images the objects in the foreground look quite distorted, did you use camera correction? Sometimes the trick is to put your camera beyond the wall and use normal lens, not a wide angle..

[thomascoote]

Image 1 - The image you have used for the outside is over exposed but we aren't seeing any bright light anywhere in the scene. I think we would need to see some stronger light or lower the exposure on the image.

[jayk]

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