Greg Zaal giving away free 16K HDRI every week
JoelLovell
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New thing: Every Friday means free 16k HDRI
(From email sent to me)
Hi there!
Long time no see! It's been about 2 months since my last update with the Kiara HDRIs, and I've had some time to think about how things should change...
Starting today (well yesterday actually, it's been a long week), every Friday I will upload a new free full-res (16k) HDRI for you, and enable instant downloads without requiring any annoying email-signup thing (which is probably how you first got onto this list, sorry).
So without further ado, the first HDRI of this thing I am hesitantly calling Freebie Friday is: Pond Bridge Night. Have at it :D
Oh and these Friday HDRIs will actually use a new, more liberal license: CC0. With these you don't even have to give credit or mention where you got it, making it easier to use for commercial purposes.
I am honestly surprised this one turned out alright with only a little bit of noise on the floor and in the darkest parts - it was almost pitch black when I finished shooting it, I couldn't even see the markings on my tripod. Those tiny bright street lights behind the trees meant I had to use a relatively fast shutter speed to capture the full dynamic range, but since it was so dark everywhere else I had to use a slow 10 second shutter speed too, so it took forever to shoot the whole thing and it got significantly darker towards the end of the process. I almost didn't even bother stitching it actually, I thought it would be completely unusable, but it actually turned out quite nice :)
Anyway, I hope you like it, and I'd love to see if you make something nice with it.
Have a nice day :)
-Greg
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Thank You very much, they look really great.
Whoops - typo in the thread title. Spellchecker probably got you. His name is Greg Zaal. You can click the gear on the right of the thread title to edit and correct it.
Thank you, Greg. Very generous of you.
Wow, that is gorgeous! What is the story on the antelope statue?
Thanks, it's very pretty scene.
Thanks for pointing that out! To be clear - this was from an update email from Greg.
Thanks for posting this MoNeart :)
No idea actually! I tried to look it up on google maps but there's basically no info about this place that I can find :( Maybe someone from Hannover will stumble upon this thread and be able to tell us.
Hey, Greg. You sent me on a merry chase! Don't do that.
Anyway, after straining my google-fu to the limits, I was able to figure out that the photos are of a location within the Eilenriede: a large urban park in Hanover, Germany. I guess you could have already told me that. Apparently there are numerous statues of various sorts throughout the park. The one in the photograph is a bronze statue of a Steinbock, or Alpine Ibex, created by Ernst Gorsemann in 1929 (possibly entitled "Capricorn"?). A plaque on the monument reads "A gift from the Fritz Behrens Foundation To the city of Hanover", and is dated 1946.
Ah, Hannover was where they had the 2000 World's Fair.
very nice, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the very nice Pond Night freebie. That is the one I'm still seeing. Has there been any more (i.e. for Fri 9 June)?
Yes, there was a new one called "Sunny Vondelpark" - I downloaded it a few days ago.
And another new one today: Hamburg Hbf
Thanks Greg Zaal!! Thanks for letting us know, MoNeart!! Nice HDRI, here is a "playing around with G8 sample render, using the 8K version.
Definitely follow Greg Zaal on Twitter - There are a couple of other free HDRIs.
This weeks addition to the High resolution freebies: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=eilenriede_labyrinth
This week:
https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=cedar_bridge
Everyone probably knows this already (i'm nothng if not behind the times LOL) but there is also a bundle of free Full Resoluton HDRI's from Greg here: https://hdrihaven.com/bundle.php?b=free_bundle though you do need to give your email address to get the links to download. Just in case anyone had missed them.
Actually that was last Friday's - this week its: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=hotel_room
Yeah, well nobody had posted it when I did and the hotel room hasd not yet been posted when I posted that. These HRDI Haven HRDIs are starting to accumulate into a nice little collection. I thing I will be buying some soon.
Hmm, looks like we've missed a few Fridays! - There was this one for June 30th (which appears to still be free): https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=georgentor
thanks
For past HDRI Freebies, just visit Greg's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/HDRIHaven. ; This week's is a Hotel Room.
Today's freebie is up: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=crystal_falls
New one up: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=misty_pines
Thank you! (I'd lost track of which day it is...
)
New freebie, Dresden Moat: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=dresden_moat
Another Friday and another freebie, Rusti Koppie: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=rustig_koppie
Thanks, Greg, for all the great freebies.
This week's freebie is Autumn Crossing: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=autumn_crossing
These hdri's are excellent for illuminating characters.
A new freebie (Dresden Station Night) is up: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri.php?hdri=dresden_station_night
Thanks for the reminder, Charlie.