Summer's End

[choronr]

I like your depiction of the terrain; foreground, mid-ground and distance.

[Cocateho]

Messed around with perspective a little bit, decided I wanted to see this tree a bit more close up, I think I'm going to do a full sized render from this angle.

On a completely separate note, I have too much time on my hands at the moment 

[dorianvan]

That's awesome work, now try to get the grasses to wave in the wind

[Cocateho]

Here's the update. Hmmm, can't decide which perspective I like better... thoughts?

[Cocateho]

Also, let me know if it seems too dark or oversaturated, when seems to look good to me on my monitor others seems to feel is a bit much, but that's an easy tweak to make 

[DocCharly65]

For me it's perfect!
Great atmosphere!

[Oshyan]

Oversharpened IMO (or sharp AA filter?), but overall looking great. Funny enough I really like the sky, very natural and realistic IMO.

- Oshyan

[Ariel DK]

wow! very nice, image 3.0 version is the best if you ask me.

[Cocateho]

Oversharpened IMO (or sharp AA filter?), but overall looking great. Funny enough I really like the sky, very natural and realistic IMO.

- Oshyan

Thank you. The sharpness is a result of some post processing I've been working on. I've been using gimp, upscaling the image incrementally and using the built in anti aliasing tool along with the smallest scale unsharp mask at higher resolutions to help make small details "pop" while the AA and higher resolution make those little details smoother. Admittedly this works best when you seen the full resolution, But I've been going up to 6-7K so I cant post on here. I don't know how practical this method would be for many things given the file size at those resolutions, but it's fun to mess with and personally I like he results.  The original renders are usually 2-2.5K, It'll be a long time before I can afford something that would render at 7K in under a week 

[Cocateho]

here's a comparison. The high resolution images aren't meant to look good zoomed in, but viewed at the same size as the standard render they look better, to me.

First, different project altogether, "enhanced" version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KL2qyWkIcAbWVqUngyTEhMaHc/view?usp=sharing
Regular
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KL2qyWkIcAT3Z0Q0c3dzVpa28/view?usp=sharing

and the full version of the last image
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KL2qyWkIcATi1mTElsUi1tdUk/view?usp=sharing

May work best to download? The viewer on google drive seems to automatically downgrade the quality, but I might just be crazy...

Ok, maybe more than might. haha

[Cocateho]

So back to this old scene again, here's a test version of  the new iteration:

[archonforest]

Good iteration. I like it already

[DocCharly65]

I like it too. It looks like where I grew up.

[Cocateho]

Soooo... I screwed up the DoF I was gonna try, Idk if I changed it by accident but here's the new shot, fixing the DoF now to try again. The smaller is a test with the DoF that I was aiming for.

[Cocateho]

Gonna call this final. Hope y'all enjoy!