Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> Have a Google for studio lighting tutorials, you may find something
>> useful. And maybe you can find a tutorial on photography composition to
>> help with the scene. I use a modeller so I can have an idea what the
>> scene will look like before rendering.
> Strobist is a great lighting resource. It is more geared to
> photographers, and getting them to use off-camera flashes, but the same
> ideas for separating the subject from the background by changing light
> distances and intensities is just as usable in POV. Their image pool on
> Flickr is good inspiration as well.
> 

The concepts are the same or very similar. I found a site several years 
ago (now long lost) that dealt with 3 point lights and fill in spots. 
PovRay has the advantage of having shadowless lights for fill ins. :-D

> I work from an engineering mindset when building a scene. Either I know
> what the end result is going to be, and just keep tweaking the pieces
> until it gets there; or I know what the pieces are and I just play with
> random numbers until something ends up where I like it.


I find the OpenGL view of a modeller comes as a boon and a blessing to 
men and much quicker than doing three elevations. ;-)

A paraphrase of an old advert for fountain pens

They came as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl and the 
Waverley Pen.


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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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