Zlain's old dirt road Final

[TheBadger]

I am guessing you have RTO off? If so try it on?

[Zairyn Arsyn]

RTO is on

[Zairyn Arsyn]

high quality render from last night
dogrose bush flowers have blue coloring.

C&C, suggestions welcome

[Dune]

Looking really good. One thing; I'd patch up/reduce the grasses in the central path.

[Hannes]

Love the mood in your image. Imho the lighting is a bit flat especially on the plants in the foreground. As you may have read in Mor's thread, I'm a big fan of the fill light setup, which to my taste very often makes the plants look better in terms of lighting and detail in the shadows.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

@dune, do you mean the grasses between the path / tracks or on the sides of the path?
either way i'll start masking
 

[Dune]

I mean between the tracks. Especially in the further distance it is very much a 'solid' line. I think if you patch it up, it's nicer.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

how does this look?

in background its kind hard to tell  the difference between the grass and the median texturing, would have to do a larger render for a better view.

C&C welcome

[Zairyn Arsyn]

personally i like the GI light version
the lighting does'nt really match the mood i had imagined.

your thoughts?

[Oshyan]

That latest version is much "colder" but seems more realistic at the same time, like a photo vs. the previous ones looking more like idealized paintings. If you could warm up the tone of the latest one a bit and brighten it a little overall, I think it would be my personal preference. But I do think a good deal of it at this point is down to personal taste, or what looks "realistic" to a given person.

- Oshyan

[Zairyn Arsyn]

changing fill light colors... seems to fixed the coldness, ill keep tweaking things

[Dune]

I agree with Oshyan, the latter is more 'photographic', but may have a little extra warmth. The reduced grass is super! Makes it much more real.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

fill lights, again

its kinda hard to spot out any shadows i think, i turned soft shadow off anyways, and the shadowing is'nt very dark.

[Jo Kariboo]

I prefer the two last one. The others are very good to ! 

[Zairyn Arsyn]

another render with the fill lights, tweaked.

i have gotten the lighting on the reeds to resemble the way it looked on the GI based renders, while making the flower bushes look a little more defined.

C&C, or suggestions welcome.