Daylight system and exposure control

[Sam Jarvis]

Hello

I have just created and rendered an interior scene using an mr daylight system.
This is my first time using mental ray after just having read 'rendering with metal ray and 3ds max' by Joep Van Der Steen.

The scene look fine apart from the colors appear a little washed out and the whole render looks a little pale.
I'm assuming this is because of the exposure control. I am using the mr Photographic exposure with the interior daylight preset but i don't really understand how to use it.

Could anybody give me suggestions as to why the colors appear washed out.
Any hints or tips on exposure control would also be appreciated.

-Sam

[Sam Jarvis]

I should also mention that I have not added a sky portal to the scene because basically I don't know what it is.
Should I add one?

-Sam

[peengoh]

This (http://www.pixsim.co.uk/downloads/The_Beginners_Explanation_of_Gamma_Correction_and_ Linear_Workflow.pdf) might help, you need to de-gamma your textures...



try looking for linear wrokflow on max...

I would also advice going through the tutorials section, as well as checking out
Master Zap´s Blog (http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com) and Jeff Patton´s (http://jeffpatton.cgsociety.org/blog/) too.

[Sam Jarvis]

Thanks for the advise!

I'll give this a try and let you know what happens!

-Sam