Lighting an Exterior Daylight Scene - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 120

Something else that we may find useful during the capture process would be to work
with just a single set of exposure settings for the duration of any single referen-
ce gathering session. This will allow our reference shots to capture the sometimes-
subtle changes in illumination levels that oftentimes go hand in hand with shifts in
lighting color.
Good quality components in our camera, coupled with the extra data levels that can
be captured when using the RAW format, will mean that we are able to continue ob-
serving and learning from real-world day-lighting scenarios long after the sun itself
has gone down and we have been forced back indoors.
Of course we do need to keep in mind that no camera will capture color information
in a way that maps 100 percent to what we see with our own eyes while we are
present in any given environment. This means that going to huge expense in terms
of the camera equipment we use for reference gathering simply isn't required. All
we need is a decent set of equipment that can help us pull together as much good
quality information as possible and so gain valuable insights into what is going on,
photographically speaking, whenever an environment is being lit by the sun and sky.
Tip
Another habit I would strongly recommend avoiding is the trap of using just a
stock set of RGB or HSV Sunlight colors that we always apply in daylighting