Composition and Cameras - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 286

right for them. In an environment such as our gallery space, however, where ob-
jects have a fixed place that they need to be in, staging the scene in any mean-
ingful way is typically not an option and so finding well-composed shots can be-
come a bit more of a challenge.
To get started, we will of course need to make a bit of a change to the scene,
hiding the glass cover geometry so as to be able to see the exhibits or sculpts in
the SketchUp viewport, meaning we will be able to see the framing we are getting
on them. Before we create the scene view, let's go ahead and perform the following
steps:
1. Right-click on our recently created Wide Shot - 35mm scene tab and
choose the Add Scene option. This ensures that we keep our wide shot view
intact.
2. Next, we can hide the display cases by clicking on the Window menu at the
top of the SketchUp UI and choosing the Layers option from the drop-down
menu.
3. In here, we want to uncheck the Visible option for the Display_Glass layer
and then dismiss the layers dialogue.
4. Next, we can set our Focal Length for the shot to something a little more
appropriate for the extreme closeness that we may want to create. With the
Zoom tool selected over on the toolbar, we can enter a value of 80mm and
then hit Enter .
5. To make sure we don't accidentally lose what we have created in the scene
view so far, let's right-click again on the Scenes tab and then on the Update
option.
6. Now we can move our camera into position as it were by using the Orbit ,
Pan , and Walk tools to set up a view that looks as similar as possible to the
one seen in the following screenshot: