Sky 026 Clear Sun HDRI

About this asset

A clear blue sky grades toward a pale horizon around a bright low sun, above a black lower half in the supplied panorama preview.

Lighting and scene uses

This simple sky is useful when you want to judge the outline and shading of an object with little cloud detail in its reflections. Rotate the sun across the side of the subject and inspect the resulting ground shadow. Keep an eye on pale surfaces and exposure before adding extra lights to fill the darker side.

Resolution and map details

The product page lists 10K, 6K, 3K, 1K files in .hdr format. Choose the resolution for the detail visible in the final camera framing and reflections. The web image above is a compressed preview; use the purchased HDR file to light your scene.

The supplied image shows the sky with black below it. Preserve this layout when previewing the panorama; add your own ground or foreground geometry for a complete scene. The JPEG preview cannot establish the lighting contribution of the purchased map below the horizon.

Compare lighting in your workflow

Learn how to add a ground plane for HDRI lighting so that your objects have local contact shadows. Use the Blender HDRI lighting workflow to load and rotate the environment.

Compare Clear Blue Horizon HDRI to compare two clear-sky environments with different sun positions and horizon gradients. Keep your material and exposure fixed to make the comparison useful.

Browse the HDRI lighting collection to combine environment, lighting and scene filters.