Balcony Pool – day and night

[rcossoli]

hello all, long without posting anything, these are the images I made for a tutorial on http://www.sketchupartist.org (James's blog) are three outdoor images, two with natural light and artificial light (night picture)
I hope you enjoy and will be useful
C & C are welcome.

Tutorial link:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/2012/04/making-of-balcony-pool- –-day-and-night/

Greatings.

[pbacot]

Very kind of you to make the tutorial. It looks good. I'll have try it out sometime.

Thank You! Peter

[EarthMover]

The sunlight looks great. Love the glass railing. Congrats and thanks for the tutorial!

[Roger]

Excellent renders are renders that are hard to see something to find fault with. In this case the only thing that bothers me is the close up of the tea pitcher. The index of refraction of the glass does not look right in the handle and neck and handle of the vessel. You see right through them as if they were just flat glass. My eye was expecting some distortions and stronger highlights. Does this happen of the inner and outer glass surfaces are not sealed together and the surfaces act as two pieces of thing glass rather than one piece of thick glass? Or is it just a case of not assigning a proper index of refraction. Glass is something I have struggled with from time to time.

[rcossoli]

Thanks for your comments pbacot and EarthMover
Roger: With respect to the glass of the jar you're right, the refractive index is not correct this default to 1 when usually at 1.3 for the image distortion you seeing through it, without realizing it uses the same material glass panels in the rail, into the jar must have used another. thanks for the observation.

Greatings

[fymoro]

Nice, I really like the lighting in your night scene...

[aadb]

awesome looking render, like the blur, but imo the table in the front attracts to much attention

[rcossoli]

thanks for comment Fymoro and aadb and yes,la idea era que la mesa acapare la atencion en la tercer imagen.

Greatings