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My client where I do all his Carport viz for has a new product line. Looks pretty cool in my opinion because the solar-cells are a bit smaller and mounted on glass so it casts great shadows.
He asks me to do some renderings before he build the first ones which shows how lightend and nice it looks like.
So I came up with this for him. I decided to work with bright colors and higher ISO with DoF on this one to underline the new product.
Rendered in PMC mode and cooked for a while up to 5000-7000 samples.

the shadows look fantastic on the car, I love it, specially the second one, the overall scene finish and looks are top tier stuff, happy client for sure

looks great and very realistic!

I have a question: My sky always renders blue, how did you get everything to look so white? Any special setup in terms of the environment light??

It's easy Peter. I just render the scene with alphachannel and put a custom sky picture to the background, adjust colors and call it a day.
To get reflections from clouds on car paint or other reflective materials I use a large plane with a cloud image. I guess a HDRI will do too.
On my wishlist is to have a HDRI just for reflections and for such scenes with a custom skyimage.

Man I love the work!
The project is a great idea, even better if it gets produced in the end, Im interested in solar panels for quite a while now, and this even looks pretty, I love working on interesting projects like that

All of them get produced. I get the files right from the ingeneering guys.
Will do some more technical visualizations like the mounings of the panels today as it seems.
I want one for my own!