Text2Light

• https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/other/10-free-hdr-panoramas-created-with-text2light-zero-shot
• https://frozenburning.github.io/projects/text2light/
• https://github.com/FrozenBurning/Text2Light

Royalty free links

• https://locationtextures.com/panoramas/
• http://www.noahwitchell.com/freebies
• https://polyhaven.com/hdris
• https://hdrmaps.com/
• https://www.ihdri.com/
• https://hdrihaven.com/
• https://www.domeble.com/
• http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
• https://www.hdri-hub.com/hdrishop/hdri
• http://noemotionhdrs.net/hdrevening.html
• https://www.openfootage.net/hdri-panorama/
• https://www.zwischendrin.com/en/browse/hdri

Nvidia GauGAN360

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YwTkrmogDg
• http://imaginaire.cc/gaugan360/

https://diffusionlight.github.io/

https://github.com/DiffusionLight/DiffusionLight

https://github.com/DiffusionLight/DiffusionLight?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15pC4qb9mEtRYsW3utXkk-jnaeVxUy-0S

“a simple yet effective technique to estimate lighting in a single input image. Current techniques rely heavily on HDR panorama datasets to train neural networks to regress an input with limited field-of-view to a full environment map. However, these approaches often struggle with real-world, uncontrolled settings due to the limited diversity and size of their datasets. To address this problem, we leverage diffusion models trained on billions of standard images to render a chrome ball into the input image. Despite its simplicity, this task remains challenging: the diffusion models often insert incorrect or inconsistent objects and cannot readily generate images in HDR format. Our research uncovers a surprising relationship between the appearance of chrome balls and the initial diffusion noise map, which we utilize to consistently generate high-quality chrome balls. We further fine-tune an LDR difusion model (Stable Diffusion XL) with LoRA, enabling it to perform exposure bracketing for HDR light estimation. Our method produces convincing light estimates across diverse settings and demonstrates superior generalization to in-the-wild scenarios.”

https://s.studiobinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Cinematic-Lighting-Cheatsheet.pdf

Local copy

www.xuanprada.com/blog/2014/11/3/hdri-shooting

http://blog.gregzaal.com/2016/03/16/make-your-own-hdri/

http://blog.hdrihaven.com/how-to-create-high-quality-hdri/

Shooting checklist

• Full coverage of the scene (fish-eye shots)
• Backplates for look-development (including ground or floor)
• Macbeth chart for white balance
• Grey ball for lighting calibration
• Chrome ball for lighting orientation
• Basic scene measurements
• Material samples
• Individual HDR artificial lighting sources if required

Methodology