Forest

[Henry Blewer]

This was render with AA set to 5 and 0.325 detail. It uses the new raytraced atmosphere and local clouds. I used FrankB's Cumulus Cloud pack as a basis for the cloud settings; simplified for the speed of my system.  The render time was only 4.5 hours using one thread.

[dhavalmistry]

looking good...I think the grass need some color variation and the leaves on the foreground trees look flat in places...and fog needs some work as well....but I like the clouds and lighting....

[Henry Blewer]

Please remember this is a very low quality render. By that I mean it's basically a large quick view.

[Tangled-Universe]

Nice example which shows AA affects cloud-quality, except for the low fog maybe (could be a density fractal issue as well).
The 0.325 detail is what makes the shadows dark here, since the GI is effectively @ 0.325 as well. If GI rd is set at 1 of course.

Besides that, I think it is a nice preview
What are you planning to do more?

[Henry Blewer]

The fog quality is at the default setting. It looks really good to me without the jpeg compression. I plan on increasing it for the final render.

I thought I would add some dry bushes (the greener ones, I don't have many others except Mr. Lamppost's. They render too bright, but I don't want to change them.)

Other than that, I am stuck. I am keeping Dune's suggestion from another thread, that less is more.
Some medieval tents perhaps? It looks like a likely place for a tournament.

[domdib]

Looks nicely composed to me. I would agree that adding too much wouldn't be a great idea - perhaps some low bushes as you suggest. Maybe ONE mediaeval tent 

[Hetzen]

Beautiful scene. Well tempered. The grass population needs some work, there's too much of the same model. Maybe use the same model at a smaller scale and alternate between these two scales with a soft PF to give you some smaller patches. Also some subtle colour varition would help. But over all, it's almost a photograph.

[Henry Blewer]

I added an old horse drawn hay rake. I have not seen one since I was 8, so bear with me.
I was half asleep when I started this next render; I forgot to play with the grass pops....

[Henry Blewer]

Here is a render with everything maxed out, except the atmosphere samples/quality. I have resized the hay rake since the render. I am working on the hay rake's rust now.

[Hetzen]

This is going to be a really nice scene Njeneb. Mind you it does look as if a farmer called Gulliver is going to work on those fields.

This could be a good opportunity to either put in wheel tracks into your grass pop, or have larger plants around the hay rake as if it's been left there a while.

[Henry Blewer]

That's next. Adding some brush/bushes around the trees and the rake. Adding some very high dry grass...

But first, the specular highlights on the rusty hay rake are much too strong. Working on that.

[Tangled-Universe]

I'd reduce the main reflectivity setting and perhaps give the reflection tint something orange-like, slightly.
The specular roughness could be increased as well. Perhaps it would be interested to try the specular function input this time.
As the metal surfaces are quite even/smooth you'll get large patches of specularity which you might want to break up by using the function input.

[Henry Blewer]

Final render. It took some time because of all the clouds. Render detail 1, AA 8, and atmosphere samples 24. I moved the sun angle a tiny bit more behind the camera. I also messed around/up (?) the clouds.

I like the thicker fog. It is what I had in mind when I started this. I thinned it for object populating.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njeneb/5241219683/sizes/o/

[dhavalmistry]

I like the new look however I think the fog should be more on the ground then it is right now....and it wouldnt hurt to add little more contrast to the image.....

good work!

[rcallicotte]

This has progressed along very well.  Before you put the cart, etc. I was thinking how perfect it was at the beginning.  But, I knew it needed something.  You did it.  Very nice.