Tirenzi3D posted at 10:21PM Sat, 30 January 2016 - #4252270

bhoins posted at 10:01PM Sat, 30 January 2016 - #4252238

Best way to learn lighting in Iray is to use photographic lighting tutorials.

Not only! i agree if you say that one only uses an HDRI, that is not good anymore, you can set the HDRI intensity very low and use photometric lights. The more lights the faster iray renders ( so i have heard). But dont underestimate the power of the Sun-Sky light, i think that one is most powerfull but for a lot of people also the hardest.

I think you misunderstood. I said photographic, not photometric.

There are hundreds of books and tutorials on how to light a subject, indoors or out, for photography. It is the exact same set of skills to light a subject in Iray