Hello everyone,

In the last few months I have taken an interest in Architectural visualization. Without much experience in lighting, shading and rendering my first attempts at rendering a sort off realistic scene were far from satisfactory. But I think I am starting to improve....although I still need to learn a lot. And that is why I am posting this here....hoping for some critique to push my work to the next level.



This is the raw render from Maya (rendered with Mental Ray) with a bit of adjusting in Photoshop.
For the next renders I am planning to make use of render passes and the Mila Material but I haven't had a chance to give that a shot.

What I am hoping to achieve is photorealism like in the example below.




Tips and crits are most welcome