Recreating Cameras and Lights in Maya

For this assignment, I had to recreate a scene in Maya using a photo. I had to replicate the camera placement and the lighting. Although we only needed to do one, I decided to do two because I thought they would be fun and challenging.

Here is the actual photo of the first scene:

And here is my recreation:

Here is the actual photo of the second scene:

 

 And here is my recreation:

I think the second one was much tougher to do because getting the shadows and reflections to cooperate was much more difficult than in the first one. It was a fun assignment nonetheless. Perhaps I will continue working on it another time to see if I can make it match the photo better.