How to make shadows darker?

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Hi everybody!

I've tried various solutions but I still can't make shadows darker like in the original picture. Does Anybody have any suggestion? Thanks

[Peter Milner]

Try using lighter colour materials and then darkening the image with the brightness control.

I also don't think you've got the light coming from the right direction.

Also, desaturate and add some burn.

[Jan Verzelen]

I'll keep the ambient light setting low most of the time in order to achieve this.

[akinlolu olugboji]

The higher the sun angle (altitude) the longer shadows, results.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

I've actually set the sun position according to the daytime and global coordinates (north hemisphere, winter), so I've made some corrections to cloudness and ambient light according to the cloudy day I've shot the photos. I have to admit I'm pretty satisfied by this result. Now, I'm just trying to make little adjustments to ambient light, sky brightness and luminosity.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It's really nice work, actually.  You may have trouble precisely matching the lighting conditions in the photo-- nXt's cloudy sky is designed to model a somewhat higher overcast than what you're going for.  It's possible there are some hdrs out there that could do the job a little better.  Playing with the brightness and saturation a bit may help match the overall feel of the photo a little better (it won't help match the depth of the shadow).  It's possible you could get a better result by modeling the indirect lighting-- for example by using the path tracer.  If you choose to go that route-- using a dark foreground to model the lawn will help darken the walls a bit.

[akinlolu olugboji]

If we see the results, we could ofter more tips.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Finally, this is the result. I'll make some adjustments in Photoshop for final presentation. I'm realising that the sky settings have precedence on sun settings.

 

original photo

 

 

 

rendered picture

[akinlolu olugboji]

Very good photomatching.  Was the matching done in photoshop or in Nxt?

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Thanks! The matching was done in nXt with a low res photo as background, with very litle walkabout adjustments, then the image was rendered without the back ground and mounted with Photoshop.