Lighting an Interior Nighttime Scene Using IES Lights - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 84

contain different types of lighting fixtures, styles, and feels that we like and that we
think will suit the space we are currently working on.
Another option would be to describe in writing or perhaps even capture using a vocal
recording, the mood we see being created inside the photographs we are viewing.
Keep in mind that one very powerful tool overlooked by many visualization artists is
their own emotional reaction to a particular environment or photograph of an envir-
onment. By that, I simply mean the way an image strikes you and the feel or mood it
suggests to you.
Interior lighting is designed to evoke an automatic emotional response of some sort
from us whenever we are present in that space. Obviously, when we are using photo-
graphs as a source of reference and inspiration, something of the "automatic" aspect
of that response may be missing, which means we may have to work a little harder
to capture the feeling that a given lighting solution has been designed to elicit. What
we end up with in our lighting designs, however, will often make that little bit of extra
effort well worth our while.
My definition for interior nighttime scene lighting
For the sake of speed here, as in the previous chapter, we are going to simply create
a very brief text outline of what we want to accomplish with the lighting in this partic-
ular chapter.
For this particular space, I would like our renders to have a kind of "after hours" feel
to them. The kind of lighting that perhaps only the night guard or maybe VIP's on
a special evening tour of the gallery would be likely to see. Indeed, what I have in
mind to create will contain way too many areas of shadow or darkness for the light-
ing scheme to be used when the gallery is open to the public.
This will hopefully give us a nice atmospheric contrast to the bright and airy feel of
our previous daylight setup and will also require us to make use of V-Ray's lighting
and Global Illumination ( GI ) tools in quite a different way. This, of course, can only
be good practice for us as we work towards becoming familiar with the workings of
the V-Ray engine and its tools.