My idea was to have a morning atmosphere, a warm light after a cold night. So to achieve this, I used two lights, a Direct 01 for the ambient light and Direct 02 with volume light effect for sun rays. Here are the settings that I've used.
I've also added a plane, which I have added a tree textures and placed it between the Direct01 and the Old Fox building, this way I can obtained a soft shadow, like some vegetation around the scene.
Rendering :
I used Vray 1.49 as a rendering engine. After a lot of tests at low resolution with the default Vray grey material I settled on this settings.
With the colour mapping on a default settings, The rendering time was about 6 hours for a resolution of 1200 x 800.…after some post work in Photoshop, here is the final image:
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