Trying to find the right render settings for exterior archi viz scene

[Eszter Kallai]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new on this forum and just started to experiment with Corona C4D plugin.

I have this simple exterior scene where I wanted to find the right exposure and Postprocess settings. When I use LUT and the contrast is just right for the Sky, my house gets almost black on the exterior. I want to show the material on the facade and do not overexpose the interior at the same time.
Any recommendation for the Postprocess settings to create such a HDR image?

After manipulating the image in photoshop, I get to this slightly better result (the brighter image)
I will fix the repetitive texture for the final image, so please ignore it for now. I'm using variation shader for these and which might not be converted correctly, I will have to check.

Cheers,

[maru]

There are many ways to do this:
-You can either lower highlights (e.g. by using highlight compression) or boost shadows
-You can use Corona Output shader to exclude the background image from Corona color mapping
-You can use different image for scene lighting, and different one visible directly
-You can swap the background in PS

[romullus]

To add to what's already said by maru, you can save your render to linear HDR format and do tonemapping externally.

[Eszter Kallai]

Thank you for the suggestions!

I've ended up saving out in .exr format and adjusting it a little bit in PS.
I tried to control it within the Corona Postprocess settings by the highlight compression but it made the sky even brighter.