We are an architectural visualization studio located in Fountain Valley, California. We have been using Blender in our modeling workflow since we started in 2008. We started to use Cycles in our rendering workflow recently when we've found the Cycles has raised to our clients' standards.

One of our clients has sent us a photo to add the new design for the building that they are doing a remodeling for. With the aid of AutoCAD files we have modeled the building in Blender, rendered it in Cycles and added it to the photo in Photoshop. The hardest part was to match the lighting of the rendering to the lighting of the picture sent by the client, but Cycles' real-time rendering capability has made our life much much easier. Camera-matching was also a pain in the neck but we used the option of having the the photo as a background in the camera view to make our job easier. As a result, our client was very happy with the finished project and it took less time than building the whole scene in 3D.