HDRi

[Beat Takeshi]

I want to figure out how to take the pictures with the silver sphere to make my own lightprobes. I see plenty of them but I dont know how they take them without the camera getting in the shot.

Heres an old render I did with HDRI
http://urbanmouse.com/medcare/DVDballz-1.wmv

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

I don't think it's too big of a deal if you get the camera in the probe. It's a 360 pic, so some of the ones I've seen have the camera in it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong though.

Here are some links that might help...

http://www.debevec.org/

http://www.hdrshop.com/

http://www.anyhere.com/gward/

 

[Beat Takeshi]

Its a pic of a reflective ball in the space you are trying to get the probe from. The vertical cross cube light probes you can see the person in the reflection taking the picture of the ball but not in the spherical ones. It looks like you can see a tripod but I dont understand how they get it without the camera.

 

[surf]

I dunno, they have added some roto on the HDRis

 

[Rick Meyer]

Thats the stage I am at. Getting rid of the tripod/camera reflection from the image.

Obviously, you want to either photoshop (clone stamp) yourself out of the picture OR use HDRI shop and a mask to do it. Basically, each light probe is made from TWO pictures. The second picture must be taken exactly 90degrees from the first. That way, you have two pictures with the entire room and a definite way of photoshoping of MERGING the pictures together and taking out the reflection of the camera. But, that is all I know at this point. I am a way noob, leaning on this technology to help me render my car. I have a feeling its much easier than I am making it, but I am having a difficult time with it...