Green Lake

[Jonathan]

Really nice render.  I agree that changing the translucency would make a big difference and reducing the wave size would improve the image too. Nice one!

[inkydigit]

@TheBadger: That question is harder to answer than I initially thought. I would say that getting the lighting right in a scene is the most important factor for an overall good looking picture. Getting the lighting right is tricky since what works for one scene won't work for another so a lot of trial and error (and lots of test renders) is involved. Also, I've been recently been learning the importance of stuffing lots and lots of objects into a scene...at least for forest scenes like this. If you look at pictures of real life forests the trees are packed absurdly close together which is hard to duplicate without a powerful computer.

@Alcaeru: The rock surface is really simple. It is just the base color shader and a surface layer with Mr. Lamppost's procedural granite surface as a child layer.

@inkydigit: The models I used are the medium and young versions of the freely available x-frog grand fir as well as a population of dandelO's larch tree.

Thanks for the comments everybody, I'm glad you like it!

thanks, they look great!

[jo]

Hi,

With a different tree model (Beech tree) this would look a lot like some of the glacier fed lakes in the South Island of NZ :-).

Regards,

Jo

[efflux]

The trees look great.

[Gannaingh]

Thanks everybody, now that final exams are over I can get back to working on this one, hopefully it won't be too long before I have something new to show you.

[Themodman101]

You said that those Grand furs are freely available? I cant find them for free anywhere. Can you perhaps link meh?

I love this scene, I made a very similar type scene myself.

Your work is amazing, and I hope I can get similar results myself someday

[Gannaingh]

The tree can be found at http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/21/36/ in the Xfrogplants free sampler towards the bottom of the page. If you click on the link it will start a download that contains 5 species of plants, each with three different models. One of these models will be the Grand Fir.

[Antoine]

This is a great photorealistic rendered image.
The only thing I would perhaps change personnaly (depending where the scene is) is the water translucency color. Here it looks more like the acid water we can see in some volcano crater's lakes.

[digitalis99]

This scene is awesome and very well done.  I'm trying to get a scene with very similar coloration for a project I'm working on.  The water colors are actually pretty much identical to what I need.  The lake I'm modeling is Ross Lake in Washington State, which has the same chalky/milky turquoise coloration with low transparency. 

The only thing I'd change in your image is to pull the trees just a bit further away from the shore.  Most of those mountain lakes have such varying water levels that most of the time they have an exposed dry shoreline that's 2-7 meters above the waterline.

Top notch work, though, no doubt.