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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).
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Modal Light Placement with Target
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Animatable Dolly Zoom
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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
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