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Photography Tips – Backlighting – an Introduction
What’s meant by Backlighting? Backlighting simply means having the light coming towards the camera from behind whatever it is you’re photographing. It’s also called shooting against the light. Yes I know we were all told to put the light behind us but doing the opposite can yield some super cool photos. So why is this?…
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Blender Materials Tutorial – Making Simple Metal Materials Using the Cycles Render (Chrome, Gold)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QrGeZWkOomA/hqdefault.jpg This tutorial shows how to set up basic metal materials using the Cycles Render. It shows how to set up and light a simple scene and how to mix shaders to make silvery and golden materials. Simply changing the default Diffuse shader to the Glossy shader gives a highly reflective metal appearance but it…