[rivoli]

here's mine:

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[rivoli]

i'm afraid i couldn't afford not even a single one. not even one of those henningsen fake they sell for a fortune in berlin.
i'm much more into ikea stuff nowdays.

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[rivoli]

thanks betty, actually those were supposed to be stickers. even though they turned out more like drawings. maxwell's way to treat clipmasks.

[Maximus3D]

Beautiful work, just about all of them kicks ass!
Nice job Rivoli

/ Max

[Mihai]

wow, stunning! My favorite is the one with the lamp and the table, photo. I mean technically it's awesome because it looks like a photo, but even if it were a photo it would still be nice......eh you know what I mean

[rivoli]

thanks maximus, mihai.
tell you what mihai, i'm really glad we're done with glasses full of wine.

[Mihai]

.........rivoli....we've just begun with the glasses full of wine.........muaaahahaaaaaaaahahahaahaaaaahahaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[rivoli]

oh god. i think i'm swithcing back to mental ray.

[Thomas An.]

Very nice work !
Particularly, I like the table with the lamp (both photos).

[4 HeRo]

Love em all

[x_site]

:: rivoli... your work looks fantastic...
I love the first one in particular [but the rest are not far behind].
Your lighting and materials work great...

I know you can't wait to share some of your secrets.... ~::

[rivoli]

thanks for all your comments. x_site, i'm afraid i've got no secrets. i whish i had.

could you teach me how have you done light in the firt image?

hey pedro, lighting in the first image is quite trivial: just physical sky+sun (can't give you any coodinate cos i did that one with an old alpha and now it looks all different), 5 bounces, it says burn 0,5 but i don't trust it. burn wasn't even there in 1.1.22 (i would set it on 0,9 instead). camera: fstop 11, shutter speed 50. that's about it.

[Mihai]

pedro, it will help you if you spend a little time reading what people are posting on the forums, same questions and topics pop up almost every day. You are just asking thousands of questions, nobody is going to hold your hand through everything. Show a little initiative.

http://atillaakin.com/maxwell/maxwellreference.pdf

Scroll down until you get to the Tone Mapping section.

You don't need to change the burn value usually, just leave it at default.