First time doing lighting in Daz3d can anyone tell me how i did?

unused account - glossedsfm

Hi,

 

A few weeks ago outoftouch released the Sexy Loin Dress 3 on Rendo.  I really liked the dress but also the entire look of the character so i bought the dress and all the other pieces as well.  I wanted to recreate OOT's character as close as i could and use that as my test subject for learning how to do proper 3 pt lighting.  Just putting that out there so that people wont try to call me out for taking credit for someone elses work or trying to say that one of OOT's pictures is mine.  The environment is supposed to be like a photographers indoor photo studio So thats why the bounce light on the left side is a little bright.

 

let me know what you think of the lighting

 

https://i.imgur.com/qIIgAnd.jpg

 

barbult

It looks very good to me.

IceDragonArt

Nicely done!

JonnyRay

As a big lighting guy myself, I think overall the effect is very good. I love the 3-light setup for portraits and even wrote a 3-Light Tutorial about it many years ago.

The only part that stands out to me is that strong rectangular highlight on her shoulder. I think it's probably coming from your bounce light? In terms of the composition of the image, it's pulling focus away from the rest of the model (especially her face) and saying "Hey look! Here's her shoulder!" A slight change to lighting angles might help that.

I know you didn't ask about posing, but the crease under her shoulder looks like you may be exceeding the limits of how much the mesh can bend there. While it might require moving her hand, I think those collar / shoulder bones may be rotated too far. Withouth the shoulder highlight, my eye may not have been pulled there, but I noticed and didn't want it to go by without saying something.

Beyond that though, the contrast, the strong highlights on the rest of that side, etc. look great. I think you captured the photoshoot look you were going for very well. For a "first time", this is exceptionally good work!

unused account - glossedsfm

Thanks everyone, especially JonnyRay for the detailed write up.   I could try repositioning the bounce lights on the left so that it still shines brightly on her legs and hips, not as bright on her face and even less on the front of her dress and barely any at all on her shoulders.  I agree that the crease under the armpit looks kinda bad but i just went with a clickable pose and i focused more on the lighting itself.  I could try cleaning up the crease under there in post/gimp.  I might also look again and see if i have a different "look behind the back" pose that i can use instead that doesnt have a weird arm crease. I wanted the rear angle because....you know...reasons heh.  So i want to keep that same angle if i redo it.