Mt Hood - Final

[Luc]

Really nice !

luc

[TheBadger]

Hey Darth,

Your render looks really crisp and the trees look photo real even if under exposed. What settings do you go with for your atmo, and haze settings? The image looks like a photo. Im not talking about rocks and trees so much as I am the air between the camera and the horizon.
I have asked questions like this before but haven't got a great answer yet, probably to many variables. Still if you can be specific it may help.

[Gannaingh]

Thanks guys! The trees are underexposed because the camera is very low to the horizon with really one a slight ambient occlusion enviro light filling in the shadows and a bumped up camera exposure.

@TheBadger: Sorry for not answering before.The atmosphere settings aren't tweaked too much from default. I've only slightly increased the haze glow amount and haze glow power while reducing the color saturation of the bluesky horizon color and bluesky density color. The atmosphere has 32 samples and I'm rendering at detail:.9 AA 8 ray trace objects/atmo: on GI:2/2. The render settings are probably overkill, but they guarantee a crisp, clean atmosphere. I hope that helps, if not just shoot me a PM.

[TheBadger]

Thanks vader, i will

[Gannaingh]

Here's the final version. It's pretty much the same as the previous one, just with more light getting into the darker areas of the image.

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/#/d4gc5ge

[Dune]

Perfect! Great render. Copied it to my favorites folder.

[Seth]

very good one

[FrankB]

+1 from me too. 

[Tangled-Universe]

That's a pretty awesome image!
Funny in a way that one of the things I like most is the clouds

[Markal]

I really like this. I'm a space art and sci-fi fanatic...and a UFO or comet in the atmo would have been nice...
Still, very nice work!