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Fine-tuning Photographic Exposure for dusk

Fine-tuning Photographic Exposure for dusk - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Fine-tuning Photographic Exposure for dusk

The photographic exposure control provides a way to balance how you're seeing your rendering. And it's important to take that into account once you got all the other contributing factors in. I put in my lights and boosted up their intensity considerably. I muted back my sun and fine-tuned my material, so I have a little more reflection going on in that terrazzo. I've got my interior lights looking like they're on. And now I'm ready to adjust that exposure just a bit. I'll press 8 to go into the Environment and Effects section and in here is my photographic exposure. What we're seeing right now is that it's made for indoor daylight and I'm running actually fairly fast for this scene and fairly closed up. What I'll do is to leave that shutter speed up but open up the aperture. Trying in here at F5 for example and I'll see how it runs. What I'll also do in the exposure is burn the highs a little bit pushing that up to .35 to over expose the highlights. I'll take the shadows down to .1 so…

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