Salt lake

[yossam]

This came about from a discussion with a young lady that is probably my future daughter-in-law. She is majoring in graphic arts in college (freshman). We made a friendly wager (dinner for the winner) concerning a photograph posted here:


http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16551.0;attach=44667;image


Any way, she said that I wouldn't be able to duplicate the photo in T3. I accepted the bet with a couple of conditions. First...that the clouds would not be exactly the same, but would convey a similar feel. And second...that you fine folks would be the judge on the winner. My son is so whipped he cannot be an impartial judge.


So, if you will, please tell me if I succeeded or not. It's not like I'm expecting a 7 course meal...........she's a college student.........probably Ramen noodles. 

[Kadri]

It has the same feeling and atmosphere for sure Yossam 

[kaedorg]

You get a dinner Yossam. Very nice work.

Bon appetit

David

[choronr]

You've come close for sure.

[mhall]

Well, if it's any help, I posted that photograph and I got a bit of a jolt on first seeing your thumbnail and thought "Hey that's my photo!". I think you deserve dinner, for sure.

[yossam]

Well I'm satisfied..................the artist himself has spoken. 

[mhall]

Enjoy your Ramen! 

[yossam]

Hopefully it will be something a little better................

[TheBadger]

I'd say you won.

I would also do a higher quality render. Maybe think about getting a little more gold in the sun light, and add 1 high level cirrus cloud layer and play with the seed until it gets into those open blue areas a little more like the photo upper fore. Then print with a pro printer, museum glass, and a nice classic gallery frame (black). And put it on the wall where she has to look at it every time they are visiting.

Did she see the user gallery before she made the bet? I think you may have cheated a little if she did not see some good T2 examples first ... Playing on the naiveté of freshmen, Yossam? Or was this a case of children think they know best? 
Ha ha. Oh well, Free food is free food... Don't let her off easy. Its a good lesson for a graphic designer.

And steak is not all that expensive. Get the noodles on the side.

[yossam]

I actually had shown her some of the artwork on the site, and showed her some of my recent stuff. She knew what the software was capable of before we made the wager. So she says it would be harder to duplicate a photograph and that's when she picked that photo. And I kinda had to bring her down just a little.........."young" people think they know everything about everything. I might just eng up framing this...................

[Dune]

I say you got very close, but with a little more effort it can get even closer, I'm sure. Lowering the sun, increasing atmo density, perhaps GI and you get more orange. Soften the clouds as well. Might be interesting to try.

[bigben]

The colour in the clouds is a little pink, and it would be closer with more layers of thinner clouds.  Add a layer of small fake stones to the salt to give it that bit of "crunch" and a couple of stones protruding from some of the water...   but the bulk of the lighting and mood is pretty good

[Oshyan]

I agree with Dune and bigben (the latter of which is somewhat of an old-timey expert at photo duplication, at least in one particular example, hehe - shall we bring that one back up again with TG3 now Ben?). I'm curious how long it took you to put this together. I'm guessing not a ton of time (not multiple days, or at least not too many), and I don't know if there were any stipulations on time, but I think if you could spend a bit more time, get some more wispiness going on, more cloud layers, you could really nail it. Just, whatever you do, save the TGD you have now first in a safe place and work on a copy!

- Oshyan