Lighting an Exterior Daylight Scene - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 116

Chapter 4. Lighting an Exterior Daylight
Scene
As all parents know, spending too much time indoors is not (typically speaking) a good
thing for a young person to be doing. Liberal doses of fresh air and exercise can work
wonders on both the general health and temperament of young and old alike. In a
way, much the same can be said regarding the effort a lighting artist needs to put in
so as to be able to grow or improve in his or her ability to produce a variety of high-
quality lighting setups. With that thought in mind, time for us to go ahead and move
our lighting exercises to an outdoor environment.
While in many ways exterior lighting can be a much simpler proposition than its indoor
counterpart, it is still true that being able to create exterior light setups is a unique skill
that a lighting and render artist will need to develop. Natural daylight is a phenomenon
that we need to learn to admire, study, and breakdown in order to be able to replicate
the complex illumination conditions that can be found in what we might call a typical
daylight environment.
Setting up our SketchUp file
If you want to work along with the steps we will be taking in this chapter, then
we have a SketchUp scene file ready and waiting to be loaded up. It is called
DayTime_Exterior_01.skp , and can be found in your Exercise_Files |
Model_Files | Chapter_04 folder.