{"id":2029,"date":"2012-11-07T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2012-12-09T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T08:43:01","slug":"villat-shot-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/villat-shot-light.htm","title":{"rendered":"Villa T &#8211; Shot and Light Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about <strong>Shot <\/strong>and<strong>\u00c2\u00a0Light Balance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/topics-5srw.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>LESSON#32 &#8211; INDEX<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HD VIDEO \/ Narrated \/ 15\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MAX FILES to download<\/strong> with all V-Ray Settings<\/li>\n<li><strong>MAX FILES to practise<\/strong> \/ exercises<\/li>\n<li>The main lighting rule;<\/li>\n<li>How to use wide angle for compositions?<\/li>\n<li>An easy approach for night renders;<\/li>\n<li>Vray light and directional feature;<\/li>\n<li>How to save time with &#8220;fill lights&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Use a V-Ray camera for chromatic contrast;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exercise<\/strong>: produce the final render<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exercise<\/strong>: create the night night balance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Shot and Light Balance \/ Step 1-2<\/h2>\n<p>Every image is produced by a right combination of the source lights in the scene. The main idea to correctly arrange a lighting is always the same: don&#8217;t be too much technical and think in modeling your image using the light! Just think how to create the perfect mix, and this is really simple if you follow the basic lighting rule: choose your \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Primary<\/strong>, <strong>Secondary<\/strong> and <strong>Fill<\/strong> light and work every source separately to have the full control of your scene.<\/p>\n<p>The image below is the final result of this lesson and I can garantee that even if you are new with V-Ray, my way is so easy and logical that you will be able to easily produce the same result!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/6-tv-lb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2031\" title=\"6-tv-lb-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/6-tv-lb-icon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video below I show you how to do that in case of night render. According to the 5SRW, every render at this steps is created by using the draft settings:<\/p>\n<p>[private Premium|Premium-1year]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antialiasing: Adaptive Subdivision<\/li>\n<li>Irradiance Map: LOW<\/li>\n<li>Light Cache: 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start working and enjoy this lesson:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52929867?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCEPTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always create in your image a clear hierarchy between the lights;<\/li>\n<li>Use wide angle if you want to create a dynamic tension in your composition;<\/li>\n<li>White Balance = Neutral, Shutter speed = 10, Color mapping = Exponential is the 5SRW stardard approach for night renders;<\/li>\n<li>Use &#8220;directional&#8221; option to create effects like IES;<\/li>\n<li>Save render time enabling &#8220;store with irr map&#8221; for less important lights;<\/li>\n<li>Create cold images using values less that 5000 for V-Ray Physical Camera white balance;<\/li>\n<li>Enhance the chromatic contrast using\u00c2\u00a0values less that 5000 for V-Ray Light (warm lights).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO FIX WEIRD HORIZONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only way to avoid those strange lines at the horizon is using a <strong>VRay Plane<\/strong>, since this kind of object is an infinite plane. But there are cases which we cant use it, so how to cross this problem? Just think to model a little hill and this will &#8220;cover&#8221; the horizon. You can do this at 360\u00c2\u00b0 to be sure do not get nothing weird in your render.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"invisiblesun\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/horizon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ex-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>Download and start this file below. Carry out the exercise completing a correct light balance as shown in the video lesson. GI settings, camera and color mapping are already ok! Just work with lights and also tTry to create your own combination respecting the hierarchy <strong>Primay\/Secondary\/Fill<\/strong> lights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Smothing with VRayEgdeTex does not work with imported models\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/villat\/vt-s2-ex.zip\">VILLA T &#8211; light balance \/ start<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/villat\/villat-obj.zip\">VILLA T &#8211; Obj format (for non 3ds max users)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the max file below to verify your exercise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/villat\/vt-s2-ok.zip\">VILLA T &#8211; Light balance \/ solution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LESSON #32<\/strong>: In this lesson we will talk about light balance, analisys of the composition and light. How to simulate a night render by using an easy approach you could apply on every similar scene you&#8217;ll work in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[24,52,47],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}