Lighting Question -- why all washed out?

daveso

this maybe should go in technical..not sure..
anyway, I have set up a scene, but the render always comes out over lit ... the character is fine but surrounding items are totally washed out. 
I've tried different lighting..HDR, regualr lights, etc, but each time the result is the same.also set render environment to scene only and dome plus scene. Scene only result is a sihouette but all figures are present. 

The thing I'm wondering is if the HDR lighting is present. How to get rid of that? it does not show up in the scene list. 

 

zombietaggerung

Is your camera headlamp on?

nicstt

Rendering > Environment > Environment Map; you can remove it there. You could also turn the environment intensity way down.

daveso

zombietaggerung said:

Is your camera headlamp on?

no, i turned that off

Serene Night

I find iray does tend to either go one of two ways. Kinda bleached looking or too much amber. The render you showed I rather like the pearly color. If that isn't your bag though, I'd try messing with the tonemapping and exposure and see if that can't get you better results.

3Diva

If you have Altern8 for Genesis 8 try the setting "Brightness - Darker 1" in the render settings folder. If you don't have Altern8 you can do some manual adjustments in the Render Settings tab that might help. You can turn the "Exposure Value" up, or alternatively, you can turn the "Gamma" down.

daveso

Serene Night said:

I find iray does tend to either go one of two ways. Kinda bleached looking or too much amber. The render you showed I rather like the pearly color. If that isn't your bag though, I'd try messing with the tonemapping and exposure and see if that can't get you better results.

the only thing, there is grass, a pot, a bench , and hanging ivy in the scene, none of which is in the render. I will play around a bit more. 

daveso

Divamakeup said:

If you have Altern8 for Genesis 8 try the setting "Brightness - Darker 1" in the render settings folder. If you don't have Altern8 you can do some manual adjustments in the Render Settings tab that might help. You can turn the "Exposure Value" up, or alternatively, you can turn the "Gamma" down.

I just bought Altern8 this afternoon. Will give it a try :)

Fishtales

There is too much light entering the camera. Either darken the lighting or change the Tone Mapping to compensate.

fastbike1

Really? You look through the galleries and that’s all you see? 

Serene Night said:

I find iray does tend to either go one of two ways. Kinda bleached looking or too much amber. The render you showed I rather like the pearly color. If that isn't your bag though, I'd try messing with the tonemapping and exposure and see if that can't get you better results.

 

Serene Night

The galleries contain lots of different art, some of which is heavily postworked or rendered in other render engines. But yes, I do think Iray bleaches Images.  For me the images often look like colorized photos. Iray doesn’t handle shadow as well as it should sometimes.