What makes an immediate difference between CG and Photo Realistic Renders? The answer is Image Based Lighting.
This top HDRi sampler collection is composed of five key HDRi genres, and each category accentuates render quality to its corresponding 3D elements.
Interior IBL gives subtle light coming from windows or other indoor lamps. This gentle shading and indirect lighting brings soft, emotional attachment to human portraits, allowing you to also use it for velvety commercial displays.
Deteriorated ruins give a perfect contrast to mechanical subjects like sports cars, robots, and planes. The light shade from a broken roof or from open surroundings, give beautiful square-shaped light spots that are perfect on metal surface reflections.
Evenly distributed light sources, with unbiased light colors pertains a correct render look over default subjects, while still providing enough multi-point lighting details and natural shadows
The light from natural environments are usually composed of large open skies, wide open fields, and sometimes sparsely scattered farm houses. The reflections on your subjects will include a clear horizon divided by an upper and lower contrast.
Urban IBLs are surrounded by modern buildings and public infrastructure that are occasionally dotted with city lights, living environments, and light spots that give your renders a breath of modern life.