Reply To: Yeehaw Cowboy Lets Go make some progress through the courses
Here’s a crack at the Digital Lighting task where @jlampel suggested I try create a sunset or a sunrise. I went with a “Golden Hour” sunset – and did my best to create it without an HDRI (Mostly being because I couldn’t achieve the look I was hoping for)
I’d been writing notes down throughout the course so this is an attempt to do it all from the notes, and from my memory. Ie without going back to follow anything from the videos.
If you’ve any thoughts or pointers I’m all ears (If there’s one thing a fine arts degree taught me, it’s how to positively and construcively take critisism).
By doing it without an HDRI I figured it would make more sense for a sunset to lower the sun lamp and angle it nearly horizontal to get the drawn out light on the back wall. I also had a go at using nodes to change the sky texture to make it a bit more sunset-ish, and changed the warmth – However I could only get it so far before I couldn’t think of anything else. I played with the histogram and curves too, althought I wasn’t able to get the Luma info to be more centered. Additonally I viewed it through the raw colours and everything looked somewhat cold – so I’m not sure how it’ll look on your screens… but maybe I’m reading the data wrong? I’m adding a screenshot of that for reference.
I think if anything, Golden Hours, at least here in Melbourne are usually pretty blinding. So perhaps I could have the light brighter?
Anywho, still having a blast and I really appreciate the feedback I’ve recieved on everything else so far!
