Bed of Flowers - V2

Gannaingh · October 19, 2011, 10:29:58 AM

How about that Walli, eh? All the models were created by him, all I had to do was work on distribution and lighting and poof! A nice picture poped into existence. Thanks for taking a look.

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/#/d4dawmd

Seth · October 19, 2011, 10:33:28 AM

nice one

Jonathan · October 19, 2011, 11:27:53 AM

Very nice indeed!I have a number of Wallis stuff, but not the dandelion - what site did you get that from? Jonathan.

Gannaingh · October 19, 2011, 02:49:01 PM

Thanks guys!

Jonathan, all of the objects are for sale at NWDA http://www.nwdanet.com/home all of the stuff there is very high quality and reasonably priced IMO.

Zairyn Arsyn · October 19, 2011, 03:28:43 PM

*commented on deviantart*

looks really great, kinda dark but good nonetheless.

what render settings did you use?

Walli · October 19, 2011, 03:50:33 PM

that looks nice! I´d also say, a tad dark perhaps. But apart from that a nice piece of nature!

Jonathan · October 19, 2011, 03:55:37 PM

Thanks Darth. And thank you Walli. Love your models

Gannaingh · October 19, 2011, 07:05:40 PM

The render settings were:

Detail: .9
AA: 8
GI: 2/2

It is definitely optimized for my computer monitor, I wanted to have a nice contrast between the shadows and highlights and on my computer it works. I might render it again with some more brightness just to see how it looks.

Walli · October 20, 2011, 02:05:47 AM

thanks Jonathan for your kind words!

About rerendering: thats probably not needed, if you saved the picture as exr you can do a lot of post changes to lighting, much more then you can do with 8bit bmp files where changes result in banding and burn outs. I think slightly adjusting the gamma will give you some more light in the "middle", without loosing the contrast between dark shadows and bright dandelions.

Gannaingh · October 25, 2011, 11:13:25 AM

As suggested, I've brightened things up a bit. I changed the sun elevation and added an extra fill light to fill in the darker areas from before. Thanks for taking a look!

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/#/d4dawmd

Henry Blewer · October 25, 2011, 06:09:19 PM

I would use the atmosphere ambient light to brighten up the area between the various populations. Beautiful work!

Gannaingh · October 25, 2011, 07:19:13 PM

Thanks! The credit really goes to Walli, his models are gorgeous!