Photomontage can be used to anchor the proposed scheme into a real site photograph and give the impression of a completed building within its actual context.

The process involves taking a suitable photograph on site from an aspect that will best illustrate the new intervention when complete. A 3D model is created with the correct real world characteristics, and light sources and camera positioned in this model to match the photograph. The settings and position of the virtual camera are matched to those of the real camera used for the source image on site to provide a rendered image and photograph sharing the same viewpoint of the development.

These images are digitally combined to create the illusion of the building already having been completed.

Although the compositing process takes time, the scheme may not require any contextual modelling and therefore cost no more than a single rendered view.

A photomontage is useful for: showing exactly how a building will look it it’s actual context showing extensions and modifications to existing buildings illustrating a new development in a particularly distinctive setting Other Montages