Summer's End

[Cocateho]

Did several reiterations of an old project and decided I liked this one best. Original is on the bottom for comparison.

[Kadri]

I like the first one (second attempt) too.

[masonspappy]

Wow!
Great Realism!

[zaxxon]

Very, very nice! Crisp and colorful render, a fine study in realism.

[Dune]

I like it. Very real, but one thing that might enhance it; a little dirt/damage/rot/... to the grasses and stems. Especially the front ones give away their 3D origin. With some added world scale very tiny PF, or semi coverage surface shader, masked by world scale PF to the part(s) you can give the grasses just a bit more realism.

[choronr]

The first image is impressive. Some additional tweaking as suggested will make it even better,

[mhaze]

Great work. The first image is my favourite,  I can imagine myself lying in the grass staring at the sky with a bottle of wine and...

[archonforest]

Great work. The first image is my favourite,  I can imagine myself lying in the grass staring at the sky with a bottle of wine and...

and...?

Great renders

[mhaze]

You're too young!

[archonforest]

You're too young!

[Cocateho]

I like it. Very real, but one thing that might enhance it; a little dirt/damage/rot/... to the grasses and stems. Especially the front ones give away their 3D origin. With some added world scale very tiny PF, or semi coverage surface shader, masked by world scale PF to the part(s) you can give the grasses just a bit more realism.

How so would you go about this, power fractals for color and displacement into those functions on the parts shaders? I've never really messed with it before that's why I ask.

[Cocateho]

Great work. The first image is my favourite,  I can imagine myself lying in the grass staring at the sky with a bottle of wine and...

It was meant to invoke that sort of feeling 

[Dune]

I've made you a little (quick) sample for the principle. Check this Grass clump out (inside it).

[TheBadger]

Like them both, but image 1 really stands out in terms of believability... Especially the back ground.
You could comp that background into a photo and it would read as a real photo top to bottom. Very photo real render!

[Cocateho]

Finally went back and revisited this after so long, I seem to have a thing for this lately. Hope you guys enjoy!