Realism Test - Big

[Gannaingh]

Since I'm currently on break from school I have a lot of time on my hands. I've decided to try and make a scene based off of the view from my parents house while making it as realistic as possible. This image is the fourth one I've come up with so far the process is coming along nicely. More to follow!

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[otakar]

Looking very good.

[Antoine]

Looks like a photographic picture!
How long to render this ?

[Zairyn Arsyn]

nice photo, i mean render.

looks incredibly good, trees in the foreground look quite realistic

yes tell us how long it took to render, & render setting info too,

[inkydigit]

very very good...well done!

[freelancah]

Very nice!

[choronr]

Excellent realism ...collectively, all elements of your scene deliver very true-to-life results.

[dandelO]

Love the colour range in this, the greens and browns are very natural. Nice one, DV!

[ares2101]

Wow, very nice.  This must have taken awhile to render.

[cyphyr]

Sweetly done. I always thought a competition entitled "View from my window" would be cool and this would be a great entry.
Only crits (not really crits as such) would be to extend the trees further into the background as you can see their outer limit at the moment and to "maybe" soften the foreground fog/cloud layer a bit.
Great work, what was the render time/machine spec?
Cheers
Richard

[jamfull]

Looking nice. Curious about render specs as well.

James

[Gannaingh]

Thanks everybody! I've extended the trees so the edge isn't as visible and I'm also working on the low level clouds, getting them right is going to be tricky.

Render time: just over 6 hours
Detail: 1
AA: 6 (max samples)
GI: 2/2

My machine has an I5 2.5 Ghz processor and 8 gigs of ram. It's rather nice in the winter since it keeps my lap nice and warm 

[Dune]

Great view indeed! Interesting render details. I would say with 'only' objects in front detail of 1 is rather high and a higher AA would be preferred. But your settings seem to work well here. What if you would do this with detail 0.8 and AA 8 or 16?

[ra]

This one is really a very realistic one. Very good composition all over.

[FrankB]

Hi, I agree this is a very good render, quite realistic!
If I may have one critique: the foreground clouds are too dense. I think that so close to the camera, the clouds would appear softer and less dense.
Other than that, love it

Cheers,
Frank