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- Bruce Considine wrote:
-
- >> "...is there any relationship...to actual candlepower
- >> or lumens?"
-
- Ernie Wright replied:
-
- > "Nope."
-
- One thing to consider though...don't know/can't speak for your
- lighting approach but I generally use a camera and monitor when
- I'm DP'ing, I guess the equivalent would be the (ouch!)
- ever-popular "test render" in Lightwave. With the percentages
- for light sources it's possible to grossly approximate a 2:1,
- 3:1, 4:1 etc. lighting ratio, the problem as I see it is in the
- un-real-world lack of fine control over diffusion and the like.
- Give me a big damn softlight for portraits and headshots any day.
- Color sometimes lacks the level of control as well...what's a
- 1/4-CTO in Lightwave? What's Tough Frost as opposed to Tough
- Silk (that one in particular would be nice...directional
- diffusion!) or Tough Spun, or Full Daylight Blue?
-
- I sympathize, Bruce. I wish there were true "real-world"
- lighting tools in Lightwave. Oh well, maybe in LW v7 (???).
-
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- Alan Lloyd
- alan.lloyd@stpaul.gov
- >> All standard disclaimers apply. Non-standard disclaimers
- available on request.
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