Balunist's Child's Trike Thread

[Dave Richards]

Last night I received a PM from "Balunist" about the trike he made after his thread titled Antique Child's Tricycle Scooter. For some reason the thread is closed but I hope he'll post pictures of his project.

I had a little time so I gave it a shot in SketchUp.

 

[ehpoole]

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And that is a very nice rendition of a child's tricycle, very well done.

 

[Dave Richards]

Thank you, sir both the explanation and the compliment.

 

[Danny Batchelor]

The shadowing is excellent but from a photographic standpoint it is a faux pas as we are conditioned to seeing subjects illuminated from only one light source; the sun. Seeing more than one light source is confusing for the the viewer. Just saying.

 

[Dave Richards]

The shadowing is excellent but from a photographic standpoint it is a faux pas as we are conditioned to seeing subjects illuminated from only one light source; the sun. Seeing more than one light source is confusing for the the viewer. Just saying.

Most of the country now has electric lights indoors.

 

[ehpoole]

Most of the country now has electric lights indoors.

Just wait until you setup a theater production, *hundreds* of lights illuminating the stage, and actors/sets, from countless angles!

 

[Dave Richards]

Just wait until you setup a theater production, *hundreds* of lights illuminating the stage, and actors/sets, from countless angles!

Been there. Done that. I like keeping it down to 2 or 3 lights.

 

[Danny Batchelor]

Being a SketchUp novice, (Dave, I just bought your DVD recently and have not worked my way through it.) I was really impressed that Dave was able to create both main light shadow and fill light shadow and have them in differing degrees of density as they would be if one were using two lights. But imagine if one were using 5, or even more lights as is common in photographing furniture, how confusing it would be if you were able to see distinctive shadows of each light. Would you even see the subject or would your attention be taken up by all the shadows. That is why one shadow only is to be observed in any photographic image; there may be highlights of varying intensiveness but only only one shadow. Because you sometimes see multiple shadows it doesn't make it "more better".
All television has multiple lighted scenes (journalism would be an exception) but any showing multiple shadows is usually lighted poorly unless the other shadows belong to a different set in the same scene.

 

[Dave Richards]

Danny, the intensity of the shadows is entirely controllable in the rendering application. Sometimes I do set up so there aren't additional shadows as in this one.

Or this one:


I've never found having multiple shadows confusing.

It is possible to use a single light source, too.


Fortunately this is the sort of thing that is up to the person doing the rendering.

I hope you enjoy the DVD when you get to it.

 

[Danny Batchelor]

What I have seen of it I enjoy very much and I find it to be excellent as are the above renders.