River again

[Dune]

I did some more renders with the River Preset (http://www.store.nwdastore.com/presets/dunes-river-), adding some stuff here and there, like pulling the off-valley-terrain up in #2, and such. Both rendered within the hour.
There are some things I could have changed, but well, Sunday's over now.

[luvsmuzik]

Lead by example, well done! Like the soft sandy banks in #1 and wind effect on water, great! Cooling mist effect very nice.

[Agura Nata]

amazing real look, well done! 

[DocCharly65]

I like the first one a bit more.
But not because of the impressive sunset 

There is something disturbing me with the ground of the second render. I am not sure what it is but perhaps somthing of the following ideas:
In the vegetation areas perhaps more groundcovering plants?
Or/and in the area which is somewhat further away from the water a brighter and less wet look?

Just ideas.

Rocks and ground structure are great!

[Dune]

That would all be possible. I understand what your problem is (I really do  ), it's the chalky patches in the dry ground that look like it's a bit reflective. But I'm not intending (I think now) to elaborate on this, but I'll keep it in mind.
I also 'forgot'' to add reflection and/or transparency in the midwater section, but well...

[inkydigit]

Epic style!
I like them equally!

[Jo Kariboo]

Very nice! I like the mood too!

[bobbystahr]

Some day my tech will come...
And I'll TG4 again....this old dell will load it but it's soooo slow everything is a chore...mainly doing net and playin guitar till the workstation gets up off the mat...

But lovely iterations...inspiring....

[Dune]

And another, pointing the camera the other way, and reseeding the backdrop mountains. The B&W one looks a bit like infrared (PS post, messing around with B&W conversion).

[bobbystahr]

Looks like he's having a whizz in the river heh heh.

[Rumburak]

Very nice.

Btw the files are named 'Dunes_River_Preset_v2...'. Is this just internal versioning or did you really find a way to improve your already brilliant River Preset?

[Dune]

No, it's a name I gave to this rendered version to distinguish it from the NWDA preset in my folder, no update; this is exactly the file at NWDA, just different mountain seed, sun angle and POV.

[N-drju]

Isn't it a little to cold to swim Ulco? I mean at least for the next several months?

@Bobby - Why don't you postwork it then?

[Dune]

I'll turn it into ice and snowy  EasySnow 

[Jo Kariboo]

I very like the last one in color!