Student Exercise
- Using the Living Room Interior perspective view, create a draft nighttime interior rendering of the living room area using artificial lighting sources to illuminate the view:
- Choose the Interior: Artificial only lighting scheme for this nighttime rendering. (The sun settings will be ignored).
- Click Artificial Lights to open artificial lights settings for this view.
- Turn on the checkbox next to all of the lighting groups except the Studio Lights. You can also select any individual light, then turn it on or off or set its dimming level.
- When the rendering is complete, click Adjust Exposure to adjust the exposure settings.
- Raise or lower the Exposure Value slightly to brighten or darken the entire image.
- Continue tuning the exposure value to create a good compromise between brightness and overexposure.
- Save the rendering to the project and name it Living Room Interior Draft.


Figure 1.7.10 - Interior renderings at draft quality (showing default and adjusted exposure settings)
- Create another rendered view using the medium quality setting to improve the rendering of the shadows and lighting effects:
- Adjust the artificial lighting settings to dim some of the lighting fixtures:
- Set the dimming level for the floor lamps to 0.7 (70%).
- Set the dimming level for the ceiling lights in the seating area to 0.8 (80%).
- Fine-tune exposure settings of the completed rendering:
- Find an exposure value that creates a pleasing overall level of brightness.
- Adjust the highlights to darken or brighten the brightest portions of the image.
- Adjust the shadows to lighten or darken the darkest portions of the image.
- Save this rendering to the project and name it Living Room Interior Medium.


Figure 1.7.11 - Interior renderings at medium quality (showing default and adjusted exposure settings)