Lighting Up the Night: Special Lighting for Dark Scenes
In this community workshop, we specifically looked at dark, grungy, nighttime, and low-level light scenes and how to improve lighting in these conditions.
It is challenging to render low-level light scenes with Iray in Daz Studio. Images tend to be grainy, and that is because the Iray render engine works much like a real camera, mimicking the real physics of light. For the same reason, it is difficult to shoot photos or a movie scene in very low light; the camera just isn't as sensitive as the human eye.
This community-based tutorial looked at a range of ideas, example artwork, best practices, and a few recommended products
Looking at low-level light scenes in terms of luminance watts
Use of ghost lights and creating your own ghost lights
Using differently shaped primitives for ghost lights
How to use HDRI backgrounds to light your night scenes
The quick and dirty method to adding an emissive light to a prop
How to use postwork to improve on low-level light renders
Looking at a dim underwater scene
Is filament good to use for dark scenes?
A monitor in a dark room: how to improve lighting in this situation
Horror scenes
Tomb Raider stylized scenes
Some recommended products for low-level light scenes
https://www.daz3d.com/lighting-up-the-night-special-lighting-for-dark-scenes
