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After viewing the great job done from Elvissuperstar007 in the topic "air"
I decided to test some HDRI illuminations with an easy outdoor scene; just a motorcycle from evermotion and a road texture from cgtexture.
The materials of the motorcycle are as they come out from the conversion except the glass of the headlight, that is a glossy shader with a faloff texture in the opacity slot.

I'm pretty happy from the result (lot lot far from elvis's job ), but now i have a question.

The "wider" shoot is correct according to photgraphy theories? (the left part of the images is pretty empty), the close up (just a crop from the first) is certainly more space-balanced...but for me the original shoot gives more "emotion" than the close up, what is your last word?

Forgive me for the question but i'm not a photographer and i'm trying little by litte to learn something about that

Thanks in advice

Cheers, Paolo

Good job, it looks good.
I'm not a photographer myself, but what if you put the motorcycle on the left side of the image instead of the right side?

you're right remon! the road in all his length, gives to the shoot a sort of "dynamism" or "sense"
i've made some other tests....the motorcycle could be adjusted in at least 100 different places and positions...and for me at least the 50% were good
I've attached two tests that liked me particularly.

Next time time that I'll do other scenes like this, before start putting objects in the scene in a random way, i'll "study" better the "environment" (ground and background)