Need some advice on capturing scenes and camera placement.

[veck]

I'm pretty much a noob at daz studio and only ever really done individual characters so I could use some advice with 2 things.

1.Scenes and background: So I know some people just render a character then photoshop a background and effects in but I was wondering how much of it is usually photoshoped and if anyone had tips for setting up scenes and what would be best to use.

2.Camera placement: So I always have a lot of trouble getting the camera in a position and angle that looks good to capture a character and background I have even more trouble if I have more than one character in a scene. I Was wondering what method you guys used.

any tips or even general set up stuff would be great.
p.s. I was originally trying to use daz for desktop backgrounds but have yet to decide how or what to make.

[Frank21]

1. You can use an HDRI for the background if it suits. I also use a curved background pane connected to an image for outside windows. It has a little bit of emission (connected to the same image) to make it more realist looking. See example here.

2. If you click on a character's head, select the ActivePose tool and then click on the View:Frame thingy the active camera will then rotate around the head. It makes it easier to rotate while keeping the camera aimed at the character. It's also good because you can zoom in very close without everything going dark like if you just drag the camera close.

Camera placement - in big scenes/landscapes make sure your characters are at 0:0 or you'll be forever dragging stuff into camera view. I load a primitive sphere (to indicate 0:0) and move the whole set so the camera views what I want. You may have to group the parts of the set so it moves all together.

[Sameen]

At a guess you probably know this but use a camera other than the 'perspective camera'
I find myself using these a lot and remember you can 'ctrl Z' to undo your last camera move which the perspective camera doesn't do

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