Composition and Cameras - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 285

Exercise - review
If you prefer to skip creating your own test renders for now, you can go ahead and
open up the the full sized Chap08_WideShot.bmp version of this render (found
in your Exercise_Files | Final_Renders | Chapter_08 folder) and see if
you can identify which of the basic rules of composition listed in Chapter 1 , Diving
Straight into Photographic Rendering , you can see at work there.
You should be able to spot the following parameters:
• Leading lines
• Positive and negative space
• Symmetry
• Thirds
• Depth
• Balance
Scene two - close up
For our next shot, let's go to the opposite end of the spectrum so to speak and create
a fairly extreme close up of some of the exhibits found inside our glass display cases.
This will give us the opportunity to try out some Depth of Field effects in our renders
should we have a mind to. Setting up this shot will be a bit of a challenge, however,
as we are working here in a very fixed environment that doesn't really offer much in
the way of staging opportunities to us.
Note
Staging refers to the way that we arrange characters and objects within the frame
in order to create a composition that we like. Often photographers and cinemato-
graphers will repeatedly restage a scene until they find something that works just