Objibwa Bluffs

[Henry Blewer]

I used some of the techniques I learned from John's (Schmeerlap) latest tutorial. Walli's grasses and Marc Gebhart's Wild Alspice bushes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njeneb/5891429056/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[Kadri]

Nice render , Njeneb
I like the lighting ! The shadows does look a little to even to me ,maybe it is the Sun position?
I would crop the lower part. I like it more in wide screen.

[Henry Blewer]

I am going to add some more veggies. I also increased the environment light to match the adjusted image better. It will also be rendered larger; I know how some of you guys like large renders!

[Tangled-Universe]

Looks pretty sweet Henry...
I like big renders too
But..., I think it would be nicer if you could render it with higher settings, or is it flicker compression going on?, instead of rendering it bigger?
The grasses and bushes look pretty noisy for instance.
What render settings do you generally use?

Besides a bit more size-variation I think it would also be nice to add a rotation on the x- or z-axis for the objects, because everything is standing straight up.

[Kadri]

...It will also be rendered larger; I know how some of you guys like large renders!

[Henry Blewer]

I'll give the rotation a try. This is a tweaked version and jpeg'd at 20 compression. Flickr probably added more...
The sharpen effect of Corel Paint X2 is a bit noisy. Should not need tweaking on the final render.

This has render detail 0.725, AA 8, and Narrow-Cubic pixel-filter.

[Henry Blewer]

I need some tufts of grass. The individual grass blades look good, but some denser growth would help. I'll try Mr. Lamppost's. 

[Henry Blewer]

Okay, here's the final render. I added one of Mr. Lamppost's grass patches. I adjusted the brightness/contrast and lowered the saturation. The Grass patch render very bright and saturated; which is why I rendered it with lower light settings.

[freelancah]

Very nice work!

[Henry Blewer]

I like the last render also. Something seems to have clicked recently. Too bad about Flickr....

[Tangled-Universe]

I like the last render also. Something seems to have clicked recently. Too bad about Flickr....

Exactly, now you've posted your work itself here instead of flickr I can clearly see it wasn't doing any good.

Nice improvement by the way. You might consider reducing saturation a bit on those grasspatches.
If they are not using a parts-shader you can connect a "adjust saturation colour" function node in between the multishader- and objectnode.
Plug the multishader into the left port and plug a "constant colour" to the right port.
Constant colour = 1 = saturated
Constant colour = 0 = desaturated

[Henry Blewer]

Thanks for the advise Martin. I am going to look for a better image sharing site. Flickr is optimized for cameras, not rendered images. Deviant is better, but I really hate the interface...

[Dune]

Nice landscape, Henry. I like the whitish 'outcrop'. Only I would make the grass denser, and/or more patched, which is easy to do. Now, it is just as if you have sown a bit sparingly.

[Henry Blewer]

I was trying for areas of lush grass where the ground had more soil and moisture. I used the dry grass for areas where the soil was more stoney (I used a power fractal, billows noise for the stones) Mr. Lamppost's grass patches sort of blended the two areas together; I think it looks better this way.

[Matt]

If they are not using a parts-shader you can connect a "adjust saturation colour" function node in between the multishader- and objectnode.

You can do the same thing if there is a Parts Shader.