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[MadSwede]

4100 spp

Second version, ca 4200 spp

Models: Blender 2.48
Render: LuxRender 0.6 CVS of 09-04-02
Textures: cgtextures /GIMP/Inkscape

Just another pointless project without any message. Could be viewed as an exercise in still-life.
I like desatured and simplistic images so I tried to challenge myself by creating something with more objects and colour.
Lit with dougal2's OfficeC exr. No adjustments or retouch in post. High-res can be found in the gallery.

C&C is absolutely not unwelcome.

P.S.
Thanks for white point presets in GUI!

[Sandking]

I like but but there are two things about it:

- scene seems to be too evenly lit (colours seem a bit dim) and thus flat at lacking at east of dynamics; I think that making it lit from side like from a window would be best (showing shadows in the background and details of the front model
- I don't like composition here especially foreground/background relations; background distracts a bit - making foreground lit more and background in more shades could be helpful but also moving camera angle showing the little train on wall's background, not on edge of shelf would outline it more making viewer focus right on the little model (and maybe, but just mabe - playing with DOF would make some things here happen)

[pinko]

Well done MadSwede!!!! I like this kind of scene and i know very well this kind of enamel...
ciao
Luca.

[Poncho]

what happens when you use not dougal2's OfficeC exr. but a different one? dougal's exr feels/looks a bit too yellow I think, which makes the whole scene matte/yellow.

edit: or try to change the exr to more white??

[chaad]

beautiful !

[MadSwede]

Thank you for your comments.

- scene seems to be too evenly lit (colours seem a bit dim) and thus flat at lacking at east of dynamics; I think that making it lit from side like from a window would be best (showing shadows in the background and details of the front model
- I don't like composition here especially foreground/background relations; background distracts a bit - making foreground lit more and background in more shades could be helpful but also moving camera angle showing the little train on wall's background, not on edge of shelf would outline it more making viewer focus right on the little model (and maybe, but just mabe - playing with DOF would make some things here happen)

That's what I call constructive criticism! I will take this into account when rerendering this (hopefully later today). I thought the DOF would be more prominent but after 14 hours it turned out to be merely noticeable.

what happens when you use not dougal2's OfficeC exr. but a different one? dougal's exr feels/looks a bit too yellow I think, which makes the whole scene matte/yellow.

edit: or try to change the exr to more white??

Or simply set the white point to get that result.
I didn't want it to feel too cold but you may be right in that it's too yellow.

[Radiance]

Hi, very nice, detailed work and nice athmosphere
One small crit would be the too warm white in your image, something i notice in all your renders.
dunno if this is intentional (again), but it bothers me a bit

could it be a wrong configuration of your monitor/colour reproduction ?
attached a version that looks more correct on my display...

Radiance

PS: Don't forget to add to the gallery

[MadSwede]

Hi, very nice, detailed work and nice athmosphere
One small crit would be the too warm white in your image, something i notice in all your renders.
dunno if this is intentional (again), but it bothers me a bit

could it be a wrong configuration of your monitor/colour reproduction ?
attached a version that looks more correct on my display...

Thanks. Taking a look at the manual settings on my monitor showed that it was set much colder than the sRGB standard. The solution is, of course, simple. Everyone else in the world, set your monitors according to mine. I'll give it an hour...

Well, now I've conformed to the warmer standard and future images will hopefully look better.
I'll post a new version of this scene in a few days.

[dougal2]

An additional factor is that the colours in my Office EXRs are quite warm due to the horrible magnolia and nicotine stained walls

I also didn't colour correct any of my EXRs, they should be pretty pure "as-shot" in sRGB space... but I agree that they tend to make quite warm/yellow/beige renders.

It's probably easier to correct in post.

[MadSwede]

I've updated the first post with the new version. A few improvements but I probably shouldn't have changed the angle of the vehicle. Some vignetting to set the focus. Apart from the yellowish tone I still like the first one more.