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              Picture 4
              Picture 4
              April 14, 2012
              Amy Hobbs

              [Fun] Test Your Skills in this Virtual Lighting Studio

              Here’s a fun Saturday morning activity for you – try your hand at lighting a virtual model in this Virtual Lighting Studio. It’s pretty simple, and very addicting. For each light, you’ll choose the source – a bare strobe, softbox, or ringlight. Then just decide the power, gel colors, placement and distance. Maybe for the next version the virtual model won’t be so creepy. I agree with David Hobby’s sentiment – “On the one hand, I just blew 20 mins playing with this thing. On the other, pretty sure this guy is gonna kill me in my dreams tonight.”

              For the above image, I used a ring light straight on with two bare bulbs on either side. What can you come up with?

              Via: Strobist

               

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              • http://twitter.com/ziaharif Ziah Arif

                Thumbs up if you tried playing with the controls on the jpg image!

              • http://www.facebook.com/hiroschneider Jaron Schneider

                I’m not so sure I agree with how it treats a softbox vs a bare strobe. To me, the light looked like it got harsher and the shadows got sharper when I put a softbox on it.

              • http://www.facebook.com/hiroschneider Jaron Schneider

                Hm. Well maybe not. It was only when the light was straight on. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Yamin/500744631 Mike Yamin

                lol why is he bald? How many completely bald people have you shot lately?! Really cool though.

              • http://www.facebook.com/randyrichards01 Randy Richards

                This is very coooooool. I’ll be playing with this a lot :)

              • Richard14

                 Must be easier to code and faster to render.

              • NursultanTulyakbay

                Might be useful as a learning or teaching tool. Once you’ve done it for real I would think that you got a pretty good idea about how the light is going to hit your subject.

              • http://twitter.com/awerllow awerllow

                You know how you could make this program better? Throw in a “Squint” and “Turtle” buttons! :)

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Zaya/759505417 Carlos Zaya

                This is great! Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Nice for playing around with different looks and lights. Thumbs up!

                //CZ
                http://www.zayaphotography.com

              • http://www.facebook.com/beckiebritt Rebecca Britt

                So when can I expect this for my iPad?? Lol.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1282195163 Charles Sanabria-Skaar

                Cool. But of all the possible characters to come up with…this guy?  Why not a nice ELITE or FORD model for crying out loud!? I mean, if we’re going to mess with lighting and spend a lot of time fine tuning some lighting set ups with this….may as well be a face worth lighting yeah?  All good! lol! 

              • http://twitter.com/TimHenryPhoto Tim Henry Woodard

                Cool! Wish the model would have stuck his forehead towards the camera so we could have a better jawline. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1282195163 Charles Sanabria-Skaar

                a la Peter Hurley. 

              • http://twitter.com/juanernesto iStne™

                Great! Too bad my internet connection is too slow today.

              • a1pixels

                Cool. Too much fun, it can be a huge time sink. But it’s a lot easier than moving real lights around. It would be nice if Mr. Model had some hair so we can see the effects of hairlights and backlights. I imagine that for the same reason those effects are interesting, they are also hard to model on the computer. Maybe that’ll be in not-free “Pro” version :-)

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