Minotti

[Specto3d]

Hi guys, after some time spent on browsing this  sweet forum, here is my first Corona render
made after a photo from Pinterest.

It overcooked (10 hrs) because I left it to render over night, but I'm sure with different settings
and shorter time it would render much shorter.
Settings: PT+PT
PTS:16    MSI:5
Minimal corrections made in Photoshop and NIK plugin

Anyhow, got few questions:
-Couldn't get rid of some bright white spots on curtains material no matterof rendertime(which were cutout in Photoshop btw.).
guess it's because of low Max. sample intensity
-Outside/interior exposure is kind of weird. I planned to save 2 .exr files: one for interior and other one for exterior, so I could balance
interior/exterior over mask in photoshop, but it didn't work out. Objects were burnt in terrace if background building and sky were correct and
vice versa. It would be very nice if there would be some workaround for that.

Anyways, it's nice renderer this Corona :)

[zeitgeist]

Hi there.
Very nice image. Sorry i can´t help you with your questions.
But i got a question myself.
Did you use Hair&Fur for the carpet? Mind sharing the settings?
Looks great and i´m always struggling with them.

Keep up the good work.

[Utroll]

yes it's true that the shadow of sofa coming from the lamp while outside looks like nuclear summer is somewhat not realist.
Have you tried to tweak highlight compression in render settings / post ? It seems that most of your question are related to that part of the flow, may be curtains should not drop that much shadows too..

[Specto3d]

Thanks for comments guys.
@zeitgeist: carpet is crated by scattering few hairs on plane, and collapsed to mesh.
Actually it's 4 carpets scaled down because hairs were too big.
I got them on turbosquid:
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/707872
@Utroll:I tried to save 2 different images with different exposure compensation values, but it looks weird when Blend those 2 images

[Fibonacci]

For me the background really bright!  Overexposed.