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Controlling exposure

Controlling exposure

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Controlling exposure

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- [Instructor] In the real world, photographers use exposure at its most basic level, to control the brightness of the images that they're shooting, hopefully creating something that looks at least technically correct to anyone who might view it. Going beyond that though, photographers also use exposure as an artistic tool that helps them elicit an emotional response from the viewer as well. And although we will in this video only be looking at the technical side of exposure in V-Ray, in other words, the controlling parameters, it is good to keep in mind that these controls can and should be used to help shape the final aesthetic or mood of the rendered images that we are producing. In the start scene that we are using then, we have already noted back in our look at the point and shoot, our auto exposure and white balance controls, just how overexposed things can get here once the exposure control on the V-Ray Physical…

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