Photographer is an add-on for Blender 3.x and 4.x that vastly expands your Camera and Lighting toolset. It brings a lot of features that are often used by architecture visualization artists, and will help you achieving photorealistic results faster.
No need to use dozens of different add-ons for specific camera, lights or render manager features: everything is already in Photographer.
- Manage all the cameras, lights, emissive materials and world textures in your scene using a streamlined interface and handy placement tools.
- Use real camera controls or simply pick directly in the viewport to set your exposure and white balance.
- Physically-based light units and color temperature to help you create photo-realistic scenes.
- Autofocus tools to accurately focus on your objects surfaces with a viewport picker.
- Break up the perfect CGI lighting with Light Gobo and IES textures.
- Enhance your renders with Bokeh and Optical Vignetting textures and per-camera Lens Effects and Film grain.
- Override scene settings per camera, such as Resolution, View Layers, World assignment.
- Render all the cameras in your scene at once using the Render Queue (also works with animations).

Modal Light Placement with Target

Animatable Dolly Zoom

Bokeh and Optical Vignetting
Full list of features:
- Camera List to overview and quickly manage the Cameras in your scene
- Physical Camera Exposure with Shutter Speed, Shutter Angle, Aperture, ISO controls
- Camera White Balance with color picker directly in the viewport
- Per-camera Resolution with improved Field of View calculation to match real cameras
- Per-camera Frame range override and World override
- Camera Targets and rigs
- Autofocus tools and Debug Focus Planes
- Automatic Lens Shift, famously used for architectural renders
- Animatable Dolly zoom
- View Layers per Camera, to control the visibility of collections for each of your cameras
- Main Camera to create a hierarchy of camera settings for your scene
- Bokeh and Optical Vignetting textures to shape the out-of-focus blur
- Camera and Lens Post FX compositing like distortion, chromatic aberration, fringing, corner softness, vignetting, film grain… to recreate visual camera and lens signatures
- Physical Lights with Photometric light intensities and Color Temperature controls
- Light Targets and Placement Modal to light your subjects faster.
- Sun placement by clicking directly in the viewport.
- Light Gobo textures and IES textures to break the perfect CGI look of your lighting (Cycles only)
- Change default Light settings to your preferred unit and base intensity
- World Mixer to quickly create and control your sky lighting and HDRIs
- Light Mixer to sort and control your lights by collections or light groups, as well as “solo” a single light source.
- Light Groups compositing graph in one click.
- Emissive Mixer to get an overview and control of your Emissive materials in the Scene
- Render Queue manager to render your cameras one after each other. including animations, with improved Output paths using tokens and command-line exports for batch rendering
For more details, documentation is available here.
Need support or have questions? Reach out be email, or on Blender Artists.
Photographer 5 will keep getting new features and content until spring 2024. Compatibility with newer Blender versions will be assured for several years.
While the add-on is still in development, I do not participate in sales and prefer early-bird pricing: the price of the add-on might increase as new features get added. The earlier you buy it, the cheapest it will be.
All textures included with the add-on use public domain licensing.
For more information on how to use the add-on, please watch my Youtube channel.
Keep in mind that the add-on has received a lot of updates and some new features might have changed or are not be visible in the older videos.
Cover image created with the help of Photographer 5 by Quentin Pointillart.
Photographer 5
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- Blender Versions: 3.03.13.23.3 LTS3.43.53.6 LTS4.0
- Price type: Paid
- Price: $24
- Tags:CameraLightingPhysically-based


