Luminotography: Shadows and Effects

There's something about shadows that can make a scene feel dramatic and special. The perfect shadow can give the image a sense of solace, loneliness, of danger. Or it can make the characters seem more determined, braver, sinister, angrier, scarier, frightened, more sincere or sexier. All this from shadows or lack of them. 

When I put a scene together I always consider the type of lighting I want. I look at the real world and movies for inspiration. My favorite type of scenes are those that show the performers in special and dramatic lighting. I like it when there is a heighten sense of  awareness because of the lighting. 

Movie directors and cinematographers have always used shadows to create this special type of world for us. So, I learned my lessons from them and translated it to Poser. Included is the ability to control the scene like never before. You'll be able to move each set of lights around the figure. There's too much shadow under the chin? Move the entire SET of lights as if you really were the director. You want the shadow over the characters left shoulder – no problem. Maybe change it to the right shoulder – done. Luminotography: Shadows and Effects is a special blend of IBL, Gels, and Regular lights.  Like all the other Luminotography sets you will be amazed at the amount of control you have over your scenes. Now, you can give your scenes that extra special dramatic lighting like never before.  

Shadows and Effects include:

60 Light Effects (30 dedicated Pose Lights, 30 dedicated Main lights)
103 Camera settings/Angles (49 POSE Cameras, 54 MAIN Cameras)

Instructions:

Using the Shadow and Effects Poser Light Effects

1.Unzip and Install the Runtime folder in your Poser folder.
2.Shadows and Effects is located in the Camera Folder and the Light Folder.
3.In the Camera folder are included two sub-folders:
a.Main Camera
b.Steady Camera
4.In the Light folder are included two sub-folders:
a.Main Effects
b.Pose Effects
5.Bring in all your figures, props, and elements.
6.The easiest way to start is select a Light Effect. Selecting the Light Effects from the Pose sub-folder means that the lights are attached to the Steady (POSE) Camera. Move the Pose camera around and the lights follow. In the Light Control Section the lights will remain stationary as you move around the scene. Selecting the Light Effects from the Main sub-folder means that the lights will behave like they normally do. The lights will move around the sphere in the Light Control Section as you move around the scene.
7.Next, Select you camera setting. Tweak until you are satisfied.

REMEMBER: When you select a POSE Camera setting your document Window will automatically switch to the POSING Camera view. When you select a MAIN Camera setting your view will switch to the MAIN Camera view. 

To switch over to the POSE Camera Press the CTRL key and tap the comma key on the keyboard. To switch back to the Main Camera do a CTRL-M.

8.Render
9.Save and display as is or -
10.Open the saved Render in PSP/Photoshop and apply as little or as much postwork as desired.
11.Save and display.

Thanks for purchasing Luminotography: Shadows and Effects.
If you need any assistance you can contact bovi


LEGAL : Luminotography: Shadows and Effects Copyright © 2007 bovi 

Please see the enclosed license.txt file for details. THIS CAMERA/LIGHT SET and PSP Script MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED IN ANY WAY WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION.

OWNERSHIP STATEMENTS :
Disclosure resources for Luminotography: Shadows and Effects by bovi: 
"All of this products content was created by bovi." 

All light sources positions, intensities, color, and properties were manually set by bovi. 

All Camera angles, positions, focal length, and magnifications were manually set by bovi.

Images used in this Promotion are:

Jessi G2 from E-Frontier
Sassy Wear fir G2 Females by bovi
Casual Hair from Renderosity