libreria

[paoloverona]

from the w.i.p. "libreria"
...the entire interior (desks, lamps, chairs comes from archive3d.net). Every shot is in AO mode from 5 to 30min., 5 light planes for illumination (3 at the windows and two at the bottom of the room).
I think that the overall aspect is good but quite lot far from being photoreal. Hope you like

[PAQUITO]

Great images, specially the second one. The only thing that I doesn´t like is the view from the window in the last image. It should be very overexposed to make it more believable.

[paoloverona]

Thank you Paquito. You're totally right, the exterior exposure is not coherent with the interior

[merid888]

nice images paolo, what can i say, maybe the backgound should be mor exposed, is my opinión, please, tell me all your secrets about the illumination ? settings, camera, etc, etc

[paoloverona]

Thank you Merid,
no secrets for the illuminations, as I told in the presentation there are 5 light planes (3 at the windows with more power and two in the bottom of the room with a lower power), no HDRI.
As for the settings ("camera6" and "camera7" are the same)
camera response: linear
exposure: 3,13
fstop: 2,8
ISO: 400
vignetting: 0
saturation: 0,75

...I cannot tell you more about "vista alta" e "vista tavolo" because they were made and balanced "on the fly" with the Octane viewport without setting the camera as for the others

[acc24ex]

here's one thing I noticed first off - the books look very much like pop culture books - let's say the shapes and sizes and colours of books do not seem as "serious" as the library - they resemble typical shelf books found in bookstores in shopping malls ..
I would expect more "serious looking" thick brown, bound in leather books, not that much colorful like a bunch of cook books - I know it's actually judging books by their cover (and size) - but that's just a first thought when looking at the render - you know, you need some bibles, encyclopedias, philosophers, famous dead writers
.. make them dark colours, dark red, brown, black, and thick

[paoloverona]

here's one thing I noticed first off - the books look very much like pop culture books - let's say the shapes and sizes and colours of books do not seem as "serious" as the library - they resemble typical shelf books found in bookstores in shopping malls ..
I would expect more "serious looking" thick brown, bound in leather books, not that much colorful like a bunch of cook books - I know it's actually judging books by their cover (and size) - but that's just a first thought when looking at the render - you know, you need some bibles, encyclopedias, philosophers, famous dead writers
.. make them dark colours, dark red, brown, black, and thick

I'm 100% agree with you acc24ex (just few days ago I found some texture for creating some old book or encyclopedia), unfortunately the project was born as a sort of private (luxury) lecture room
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=30102
during the progress this "lecture room" become not more just a "lecture room" but absolutely a library

Hope to can change the type of books in short time, for a good job I need almost 20 different books, and for now I have just the textures for 5/8

Thanks for your opinion