Splash lighting photography and simulating studio lighting in general

[art3mis]

Hi

As a 3d lighting novice I'm getting inspiration from the many lighting setups and tutorials available on youtube and elsewhere.

One of my first personal projects is simulating a splash tank like in the following video.

In terms of lighting, can you simply translate physical lights and logic to the 3d world ( ie reflectors, key and fill lights, diffusion, etc0, or is there more involved?

How many and what types of lights would you use to recreate the following?

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[konstantin magnus]

To simulate a studio environment for lighting an reflections it´s probably more render-efficient and controllable to wrap an HDRI around your scene.

You can arrange HDRIs interactively in COPs by placing high color depth images on a canvas and map that onto an environment light.

I used images similar to those: 

And rendered out this for testing: http://www.konstantinmagnus.de/images/pvis00.jpg

[art3mis]

Thanks. I recall Rohan Dalvi suggesting a similar trick to simulate the type of effects you might get with HDRLightStudio.

And a number of companys sell HDR studio 'packages', 

http://www.hdri-studio.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/hdri/orderpage.pl?l=1

https://store.greyscalegorilla.com/products/hdri-studio-pack

 

but I'm skeptical about paying good $ for something you could recreate in photoshop yourself in a few minutes.

 

http://cgalter.com/custom-studio-hdr/

 

Feel free to argue otherwise!

 

For the testing, was it lit with a single environment light? Really nice!

Edited October 19, 2016 by eco_bach