thank you very much guys for your interrest in my pictures.
@ivaylovelkov: i am using a standart camera and doing the whole ajustments in the "Post processing" rollout, in the following scene for example i am using a simple daylight system with corona sky in the bg.
keep in mind that every scene has diffrent setups, but with the exposure and highlight compression you can easily setup up every scene. i alsways render out my pictures in a low contrast and saturation version, so i have more "room" in post to shift colors and levels....
@rafpug : sorry i didnt wrote down the passes or time, mostly i let my renders cook over night....
based on Rawalanche great tips i did some test with a scene...
Scene without Lightportal, rendered with PT+HD in 19:32 with HDRI
Scene
with Lightportal, rendered with PT+HD in 2
0:42 with [/b]HDRI
Scene
without Windows , rendered with PT+HD in 1
6:53 with [/b]HDRI
Scene
with Lightportal , rendered with PT+HD in 1
7:53 with [/b]sun and sky
Scene
without Lightportal , rendered with PT+HD in 1
8:07 with [/b]sun and sky
so my summery based on that scene would be that the portal has only a influence when you are using a sun and sky system, not with an HDRI..
can someone confirm that, or is it just a "bad" scene