Rocks and trees

[Dune]

Another test. Grass and shrub are no good, but I just threw them in.

[fleetwood]

Interesting formations. With some strata and textures could be the start of a Bryce Canyon like setting.

[bobbystahr]

Ah the Ulco Grail...getting closer every time.

[Dune]

Ah, I like those rocks, Fleetwood, let's see if I can get a little closer. Mine was too dark anyway. The light in that photo is gorgeous.

[René]

Apart from being it a bit too dark it's a great image. Nice clouds to.

[Dune]

Some other seed, other veggies, decreased influence of the displacements and another POV and slightly lighter rocks. I never know quite what I like best; the quite natural hazy render, or the (auto)toned one. What's your opinion? I guess some middle way.

[bobbystahr]

I like the auto toned one, seems more in focus/sharper...I now use bloom a lot to get the look and it's easy to over do it but it adds some great feel often....

[Kadri]

Nice.
Your trees do look great by the way Ulco.

[Dune]

Trying to build it all up in colors first, then using the vdisp to displace all at once. Not very easy either. I noticed that in vdisp the inverse function just uses the inverse color, but it doesn't displace inversely; I have to get my head around that 
One thing that's good about this it that it doesn't need a compute anything. Bad thing about that is that you can't restrict displacements to slopes, unless there's some kind of get slope thing that can influence the colors before displacing. Tried 'get normal' and 'visualize normal', but they are above me.

[Dune]

Another test.

[mhaze]

Stimulating work.

[fleetwood]

Looking more natural I think, good effects. 

[j meyer]

As for the auto-tone thing I think it depends on purpose and personal preference.
Having played with the auto features repeatedly I ended up with using auto-contrast
mostly, since that doesn't change the colors as much. But that's just my perception.

[bobbystahr]

Liking this more with each iteration.

[Dune]

Like I said, the good thing is that it doesn't need any compute, so this took only 29mins, detail 0.6 AA 6 soft shadows with 6 samples. If time permits, I'll take this a bit further, still some ideas....