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Any advice on outdoor lighting?

TabooGoodTabooGood Posts: 32
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Like products or setups, I always have trouble getting realistic looking lightin in outdoor environments

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  • JPiatJPiat Posts: 70

    Hdri labs, it's free and it will give you better result than any others produts

    http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

  • LyonessLyoness Posts: 1,632

    yep. HDRIs are totally the way to go.  DimensionTheory makes ones that I use all the time.  There are numerous good ones here in the store.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,251

    another source of high quality HDRIs: https://hdrihaven.com/hdris/category/?c=all

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    Having too bright an even outdoor light down make the scene look more plastic. You can buy outdoors products that would cast shadows on the characters in a scene. I mean products that have trees with leaves in the product. Other thing you can do is set the time of day early in the day or late in the day and avoid 11:00 - 14:00. Also use winter, fall, and spring as dates to make the days shorter, and finally if you do need to do a render say on the summer solstice at noon reduce the environmental intensity to 0.4 or something like that.

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996

    Both of these are really good:

    https://www.daz3d.com/ig-iray-dawn-to-dusk

    https://www.daz3d.com/ibl-skies-perfect-skies-bundle

  • eshaesha Posts: 3,261

    A bit late, but if you're still interested in this topic: Use the Iray Sun & Sky option and play with the settings.

  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,772

    DA Real World Lighting is my go to product for outdoor scenes. I do add other lights and render settings with it, but I almost always start with that. 

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037
    Llynara said:

    DA Real World Lighting is my go to product for outdoor scenes. I do add other lights and render settings with it, but I almost always start with that. 

    I just use wikipedia for latitude/longitude of real places and GMT time, then set up a date and hour/minutes and that's it (except for lighting by streetlights etc.)

    Alas, I never do any portrait shots, but full scenes, where I try to go for a kind of "realistic" look and not those travel catalogue / fashion magazine style... Not that I'm very good at it (yet...)

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