From the course: 3D Tracking and Nuke Compositing

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Lighting the scene

Lighting the scene

- Okay, to light our scene, we're gonna use Ai Skydome Light with an HDR image. So, let's go up to the Arnold menu. Go down to Lights, and let's go to Skydome Light. In the Color tab, let's open up a file, and let's find our HDR image. And, we wanna change the Color Space to Raw, because we're doing a linear workflow. Now, this image wasn't taken on the same day, nor even the same location, so we're going to adjust the Color Gain of the image a little bit, to match the scene closer. So, if we open up this swatch, what we wanna do is, we wanna make the Gain match closer to the trim of the shed. So, I've already messed around with this a little bit, and these values were pretty close to the color of the trim here. So, with those settings set up, let's do a test-run of it real quick, just to see where we are. Okay, so it's a little dark, and I'm also noticing that on the right-hand side, the lighting is a little too bright. And, if we look at this doorway here, it should match the…

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