Paris kitchen

Pixero

As I was using Thea I could try the different rendering engines to find one that worked for this image.
A bit surprisingly it turned out that Presto AO gave to most photorealistic look.
I had some photo references that I tried mimicking. I would have thought Presto MC would be more true to life but couldn't get it right with that one.

I also tried different lighting. Sun and HDRI but those didn't give me enough light in the ceiling so I ended up using a emitter plane just outside the window tilted just a little bit down and to one side.

Another thing was that I used lower values for the white. Ended up with a max value of 190-200.

Bryan K

"Wow" is right.

pbacot

Thanks for the info!

Mike Amos

Wow, very nice. Small but really nicely done.

Mistro11

Very impressive for a Pretso AO render. I wouldn't think that mode would do it either. But you pulled it off.

doppel

wow, very impressed by your work! i didn't know that thea could be so powerful!

olishea

excellent work

Richard

Mate, seriously that is inspirational!!!

jo-ke

very good work!

chedda

I concur very nice image bravo.

marked001

love this.

ken28875

Beautiful photo, Pixero!

Now show me the SketchUp render...

Take care,

_KN