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Posted by Ceciliabr at Aug 4, 2016, 7:03:46 PM
smile   Re: Lighting a room – is it cheating?
@mazoola

Maybe I have been cheating myself?
Well, SOMETHING seems to be reflecting, when I do a quick render on my tiny 13" Macbook, using one light source.



I noticed that I got unwanted reflections from lights some time ago, when I made a small lightbox in order to focus the light beams and prevent them from hitting the ceiling. There was a distinct difference in quality between using a white or a black surface on the walls of the lightbox. So I tried to see how I could use this to my advantage.

I am not presently able to check if it makes any difference to the image I used as an example in the thread, since I'm on vacation and don't have access to the actual project-files, only the documentation.

I'm in the land of the midnight sun, so; yes, the days are longer. We only have about four hours of night at this altitude ( 950 meters). Officially the days are about 17 hours long now, but that's at sea level. The bigger the altitude, the longer the days. :)

Cec