Rocky Slope

Lady of the Lake · August 30, 2014, 10:27:00 PM

Trees and some plants are X-Frog; chickweed by Walli; voronio cracks clip by mhaze; rock clip by Yossam.

Thanks for looking. Always appreciated.

choronr · August 30, 2014, 11:58:34 PM

Good use of the rocks and plants. Just a thought, try to group three of those XFrog cherry trees (one behind the other) and tilt the two behind - one right and one left to make it look like a multi-trunk, larger tree. Have it appear towards the right side of the image. You then open up a space for a large boulder in the distance giving the image more depth.

masonspappy · August 31, 2014, 05:52:31 AM

I like this. Only suggestion I have is maybe to add a Power Fractal to the tree bark to roughen it up somewhat.

mhaze · August 31, 2014, 05:59:23 AM

Great start. Some of the plants look a little blurred and the rocks seem to have too much displacement.

Lady of the Lake · August 31, 2014, 10:04:04 AM

Will try to do the bark, Masonpappy. As to the plants being blurred......what did I do to make them that way? (I hadn't noticed it....ole eyesight must be going). The rocks are probably displaced too much, but I kind of liked them.....but may see what I can do about it.

Bob, the tree is not a cherry....it is a paper mulberry. It is one of those that someone brought here a landscape tree and has become a pain in the rear.

Thanks for the comments.

mhaze · August 31, 2014, 11:40:33 AM

Looking at the plants again I think it's the aa, they seem to be very fluffy plants.

Lady of the Lake · August 31, 2014, 11:42:53 AM

So I need more AA.....

I used 7.

mhaze · August 31, 2014, 01:05:26 PM

It's a very noisy image maybe a bigger pic would help or higher detail.

Lady of the Lake · September 01, 2014, 01:06:14 PM

Okay, here it is....bigger size with AA8 and detail .8. I tried to make the tree bark have more displacement and color variation....not sure I succeeded there as much as I wanted. Took about 24 hours to render. Way too long for my PL (patience level).

On to the next.

archonforest · September 01, 2014, 01:11:43 PM

I like those changes. It helped the overall look

Looking cool.

choronr · September 01, 2014, 01:27:53 PM

Much improved Lyla, it was worth the wait.

masonspappy · September 01, 2014, 08:04:58 PM

Definate improvement.

24 hours? May I ask what kind of machine you are rendering with?

Lady of the Lake · September 01, 2014, 08:52:56 PM

Just an ordinary home computer I think. AMD Athlon II x 2 250 processor.....that is what it says.

mhaze · September 02, 2014, 04:41:29 AM

That is much better.

Hannes · September 02, 2014, 04:51:54 AM

I like it very much. It's probably difficult keeping this image from being not noisy, since there is a lot of tiny little stuff.
If you could get more depth into this image it would be easier to distinguish between the foreground and the background. Maybe a little haze in the background or maybe some DOF?