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Adjusting exposure control

Adjusting exposure control - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Adjusting exposure control

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- [Instructor] Just like in the real world, shooting an image requires that you control the light as well as the camera settings. Now we'll look at Exposure Control in 3ds Max. When we created this light we were prompted whether we wanted to enable the so-called logarithmic exposure control. I basically recommend that you never use that type of exposure control but instead you use the physical exposure control, and that's going to work very well with a physical camera. If you're using mental ray, you can use the mental ray exposure control. Let's go into the Rendering menu, to exposure control. This opens up the environment and effects dialog box. And here we can do things like put an environment map in the background. Here's the exposure control section and right now we have no plug-in enabled, it says no exposure control. Let's go ahead and select from that pull down list physical camera exposure control. It's really the best option all around because it's compatible with basically…

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