Looking for feedback on my IKEA-inspired product visualization (Blender 5.0, Cycles)


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Ikea’s visualizations generally have light clean and happy vibe. The picture there is not that vibe :laughing: For me, the wood seems slightly overexposed as well. I don’t know… I get a feeling there is something slightly off with the colors. Too much contrast, slightly too cool white balance… But that’s just comparing with Ikea. Without that, it looks great.

I moved this to Artwork, Focused Critiques category. I hope you don’t mind. You were not planning to add a tutorial for this or share a bunch of tips and are just looking for feedback, right?

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Thanks for the comments. I’ll take them into consideration.

I’m not going to look at your lighting setup, but you might wish to review some books and articles about staging “product shots” like this one. (Perhaps, for conventional film.) For example, one trick that I saw a lot was to tape “gels” in front of the various flash strobes, thus imparting a very slight, barely noticeable tint to it. And you used slightly different colors of gels in different angles and places.

I not-so-teasingly suggest that you buy a copy of Vanity Fair magazine and have a nice study of best-of commercial photography before you reach the Table of Contents! :slight_smile: You’ll find product images there as well as human models, and the magazine doesn’t spare on printing or paper. And you can then look critically at them to try to see what they did and how they did it.

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