Photographer 5 - Blender Addon

Photographer is the most complete Camera and Lighting add-on for Blender 3.x and 4.x, compatible with EEVEE and Cycles.
It vastly expands your camera and lighting toolset with Physical Camera properties, Bokeh textures, Camera and Lens Post FX, Physical Lights with photometric units, Gobos and IES, HDRI ground meshes integration...  It also includes a Render Queue manager, Mixer interfaces for Lights, Emissive materials and Worlds.

Here is the long list of features:

  • Physical Camera with real Exposure controls (ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, Shutter Angle) or more artist-friendly controls (EV value)
  • Autofocus tools with Viewport picker
  • White Balancing with Viewport picker
  • Resolution per camera with artist-friendly presets, with correct Field of View calculation with a smarter Sensor Fit.
  • View Layers and World controls per camera
  • Focus Plane and Depth of Field limits
  • Optical Vignetting and Bokeh textures support for cameras.
  • Camera list and Drone Camera that can fly between cameras and blend between their settings
  • Photographer Main Camera, introducing a hierarchy where one camera will define the default settings for the scene.
  • Easy-to-use Camera Targets
  • Camera and Lens Post Effects, adds Lens distortion, Chromatic Aberration, Fringing, Sharpen, Film Grain and more... (works best with Blender 3.5 and its realtime Viewport Compositor)
  • Dolly Zoom
  • Lens Shift and Automatic Shift to fix vertical perspective for Archviz renders
  • Camera Position Bookmarks to store several locations per camera.
  • Physical Light units (Lumen, Candela, Lux) with Color temperature and Preset)
  • Light Gobos and IES (Cycles only), add textures to your lights in a couple of clicks to break up that perfect CGI look. A small library of textures is included and will keep growing.
  • Light Placement Modal, quickly create a Light on the object under the mouse, or create faster character lighting using a target and orbit 
  • Light Mixer, a user-friendly interface to manage the lights in your scene, using collections and light groups.
  • World Mixer, a user-friendly interface to manage your HDRI and World materials per-camera.
  • World HDRI ground meshes, that receives shadows and lighting for great integration results.
  • Emissive Mixer, a user-friendly interface to manage the emissive materials in your scene.
  • Render Queue to render one or all cameras at once, incrementally saving your images as well as storing them in new render slots.
  • Render path tokens to create automatic paths and filenames based on Scene properties.

Photographer 5 will receive free updates to ensure compatibility with new Blender versions.
This is a one-seat license, please reach out to get a discount if you wish to buy multi-seat licenses for a studio.

Please reach out for support or feature requests if you have issues with the addon.
Documentation is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/photographer-5-documentation/home
You can also follow the thread on Blender Artists forum: https://blenderartists.org/t/photographer-camera-exposure-white-balance-autofocus-physical-lights-bokeh-render-queue/1101721/

For more information on how to use the add-on, please watch my Youtube channel.
Keep in mind that the add-on has been updated since and some new features might have changed or are not be visible in the older videos.

Standard Use License
$24
License: Standard License
Stock Assets

For personal use and one commercial project (up to 2,000 sales or 20,000 views).

Tutorials

One copy to be used by a single user.

Installable Tools

One installation by a single user.

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