Studio lighting tests

[Doug Armand]

Managed to fit in some time so here are the renders - pretty much what was shown in first post but at least these tie in with the posted .blend file

Softbox
great for product shots - nice soft shadows/lighting

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Brolly Reflector
Good for portraits

BrollyreflectorBlender.jpg (131.15 KiB) Viewed 13694 times

2x Brolly Reflectors
Twice as good for portraits?

2xBrollyreflectorBlender.jpg (122.89 KiB) Viewed 13691 times

Ringlight
Great for copy work - notice harder shadows - also used a lot in fashion photography - gives interesting dead-on portraits. Also gives characteristic doughnut light reflections

RinglightBlender.jpg (107.77 KiB) Viewed 13692 times

[Doug Armand]

BTW if anyone can convert the blender file I posted into another 3d package format, and having made sure all the materials, etc work, I would be more than happy to host them on my Windows Live skydrive space so others can download them

[Soup]

Hey Doug I'm getting an error with that blend file, I just updated to 2.49b too and still getting it. Could you re-upload it?

[dmn]

<homergurgle> doe..nut light reflections... :d </homergurgle>

[dmn]

Sketchup version.
http://cid-83f82f09d51a34d4.skydrive.li ... studio.skp

[Doug Armand]

Hey Doug I'm getting an error with that blend file, I just updated to 2.49b too and still getting it. Could you re-upload it?

DMN seems to have it working, see his post with an image done in sktechup, what errors are you getting?

[Doug Armand]

Sketchup version.
http://cid-83f82f09d51a34d4.skydrive.li ... studio.skp

Hey nice one! that test scene is better than mine!

ringlight version?

[Whaat]

Thanks Doug! and thanks dmn for posting the SKP version!

[wojtek-w]

Sketchup version.
http://cid-83f82f09d51a34d4.skydrive.li ... studio.skp

thank You very much. Although one linked material has absolute path and it gives error message. Of course it doesn't really metter (it's only for the record) and this file is veeery useful.
Thanks Doug for sharing

[Doug Armand]

OK Im starting to try and make a tutorial on how to model/use all this stuff. Here is my first attempt at it and it's in a .pdf format - please be gentle

This is just a taster to see if there is a demand to warrant the effort for this and also if the style I use is acceptable - I use an awful lot of next, now, and first words etc

It's a simple how to - ie to how create a Studio light with Brolly Reflector, and it is very Blender orientated but the concepts should still be useable most 3D users.

I was also intending to also show how to use Blendigo to set up the materials and also how to set up a basic studio shot. If there is demand then I will also show how to do the softbox and ringlights etc

Anyway here its is:

Studio light with Brolly Reflector.pdf

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[dmn]

Sketchup version.
http://cid-83f82f09d51a34d4.skydrive.li ... studio.skp

Hey nice one! that test scene is better than mine!

ringlight version?

Yes, ring light. But I have each light group you set up on a separate layer so it should work. Not sure about the absolute path thing. Skindigo is a little less transparent than Blendigo (not to say that either is better than the other ). This is a great reference for how to set these kind of lights up.

[Soup]

Hey Doug I'm getting an error with that blend file, I just updated to 2.49b too and still getting it. Could you re-upload it?

DMN seems to have it working, see his post with an image done in sktechup, what errors are you getting?

Oh dw, the skydrive URL tricked me
Btw looks good, both versions! Could we get a maxigo version perchance? I rekon Fused could whip up a C4d one real quick too.

[mr_jo]

Thanks Doug and dmn for the scene;
This is my SkIndigo try with another rectangular emitter on the right.
I've dimmed the gain of the ringligth layer to 0.15 so the most light goes from the right.

[Doug Armand]

Thanks Doug and dmn for the scene;
This is my SkIndigo try with another rectangular emitter on the right.
I've dimmed the gain of the ringligth layer to 0.15 so the most light goes from the right.

My pleasure
Thats really nice - interesting shadows

[garry15]

Great Studio Lighting Test. I really enjoy it