Share photography tips applicable to rendering

[Ecuadorian]

I recently bought a PS3 and a racing game, but I stank at it.
My cousin came to visit and he picked up the game pretty fast.
I don't know how to drive a real car, my cousin does.

I guess the same thing goes to Photography and 3D Rendering.
For example, Alex from the KT-Team is a photographer, and he does beautiful renders.

Any rendering tips extracted from the field of photography you experts might want to share?

[Solo]

I've also wondered this before, I cannot take a photo to save my life, but can sketch and paint, so maybe what I lack in one I make up with the other.

[Fletch]

Very good point, Miguel,

Photography in real life, in my opinion, gives you an advantage in rendering in two (maybe 3) major ways:

1. Choosing an engaging (interesting) point of view and camera angle/lens.
2. Settings on camera for using a realistic DOF and exposure

I am an amateur photographer and had a class in University, and I know for sure that it helps. But as an architect, and a design teacher at Uni one year in the past, I've definitely studied composition, and I have studied millions of architectural photographs, and this can make up significantly for what one lacks in photoraphy skills.

[flipya]

I'm a fulltime photographer and parttime insomniac (it's 1:06 am here) and happy to share some tips. This topic is way down on the list so consider this message a 'tag' to remind myself tomorrow