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You cannot shuffle scene, camera and lights around to make it look almost like what it's supposed to and call that a solution. I didn't do that, just took two of my high quality, proven hdris, and put some nice material on the plane, and that's it. (Oh, and I used a little DoF.) ...bidir+metro does...

lacilaci wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:30 am But now you changed condition and you're rendering with hdri, this isn't solving anything

Then what is the main issue?
Wasn't the problem that you can't make nice orange juice?

My latest juice volume:
And some renders with hdri lighting (BiDir + Metro):

HDRI 1. front HDRI 1. back HDRI 2. front HDRI 2. back

Ok, so first of all using semi transparent glass is the worst fake possible... Semi transparent glass was just a test, I left it like that by accident. I suspect, that SDS paths have a big impact here, so here is a render with corrected glass opacity but with BiDir Metro: (eye and light paths both ...

lacilaci wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:55 am here's your scene with sun blasting right from above, this looks all kinds of wrong
juice_sunupprovisory.png

Some more changes and corrected volume priorities.
Oh, and I had to increase path depths!

Sun is directly from above:
Sun from behind (like on pleasing shots):

wasd wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:07 pm Your volume priorities are also both 0.

You're right. (I should have mentioned, that mine was based on Sharlybg's.)

You can tweak it further, on my slow computer it is hard to find the perfect settings. But keep in mind, that for commercial beverage photos they use back lighting, so without that you wont get those punchy results.

My version: Only lit by Sun + Sky.

Path depth isn't too low?

What happens if you switch to not arch glass and increase juice volume scattering?

(I'm away from my computer now.)