Waterview

[biker2910]

my first render after 3 months break
stones and water are fascinating for me .. cc welcome

[biker2910]

i added some plants into the Background

[Dune]

Terrific scene! I really like the archaic look of it. We will need to see a larger version of the second one, of course.
There is one crit I have; the circular wave patterns are too similar and too outspoken for such calm water. There is a way to do this procedurally instead of with a mask, where you could take a few close by points where the stones are and feed this into some blue nodes producing outward ripples. It's on the forum somewhere. And it's a pity of the flattened left stone. If you try another seed this might be changed, but it would change the composition as well.

[mhaze]

Wow! wonderful scene. Where did you get those underwater plants?

[biker2910]

here the values I used in this landscape:
AA 8; Detail 1,GI relative Detail 3, Gi sam. Quality 3, blur radius 8,
plant's under water plants from Xfrog; Background Plant's from Walli (ornamental Gras)
Thanks for your comments.

[inkydigit]

excellent scene!
my only really minor think I might change, would be by adding some reflectivity to the plants sticking out of the water, so the look wet/succulent?
but that is being picky!
cheers
Jason

[TheBadger]

I like a lot of the elements in this image. But only one thing is bothering me. I think you should fill in the empty space on the upper right of the distant range. The negative space there does not fit the comp of the shot angle.

[dandelO]

I love this image but, for some reason, I like the first one with no plants best, it's like a painting and the trees in the follow-ups kind of take that illustrative feeling away.
I think I'd completely remove that background terrain, though, it looks too much like it's just been dropped in there as a filler and the steep walls don't look natural at all, compared to the rest of the image, I think it'd look much better without it.
The water is superb!