Having good lighting can turn an amateur photo into a professional photo. Photographers have countless tools such as shades, reflectors, and soft boxes to create the ideal lighting situations for their subjects. They don't just round up their models, products, interiors and the like, and start snapping away. They carefully calculate things such as what time to take the photo, what part of the image needs more light than the others, and what direction should the shadows fall. However, in Cinema 4D, you have the ability to add, position, and modify lights that seem suitable, in order to get the best-looking image.
This chapter will explore recipes that deal with the lighting. We'll learn what each type of light does, how to cast and control shadows, and how to light scenes beautifully without using the typical light objects in Cinema 4D. There's a wealth of techniques that can be borrowed from real-world photography to use within the 3D world, and you'll find that having the right...