A hard rains gonna fall

[cyphyr]

Heres a go at some cumulus storm clouds, still a WIP but let me know what you think. I think theres still some problems with how the clouds intersect. Looks like the detail is getting blurred when two layers cross over.

Render times and spec below:

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
D 0.8
AA 8
GI 1/1
4.58 Hours

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall 06
D 0.8
AA 8
GI 1/1
13.33 Hours

on 2 cores E6600 2.4Ghz OC'd 3.2Ghz 3Gig

Richard

[Will]

I love the black and white version.

[Saurav]

The wide view and the composition of the third picture sells the story best for me.

[rcallicotte]

Brilliant work.  The black & white impressed me.  The third took my breath for a second.  Just beautiful.

[Phylloxera]

Splendid clouds ! I like it !

[lightning]

like the third one the best very nice image love the clouds!
it would be cool if you could do a DOF on the third one just my thoughts though

[Seth]

love the black and white !

[NWsenior07]

I too love the black and white one, very impressive.

[child@play]

yep, the b/w image is adorable

[cyphyr]

Thanks for the replies guys. I was looking for an Ansell Adams look to the BW image. Maybe in the same arena but a long way from the master. I'm away from my muscle PC for the weekend so theres not much I can do for now. More later.
Richard

[efflux]

All very good. Excellent use of the tree. I like the high contrast of the black and white one. They suffer from the blobby solid look with the cumulous clouds or at least the third definitely does e.g. the cloud on the right but other than that they are still excellent.

[bri]

I love the 3rd one and the angle.

[Oshyan]

The subtle streaks (shadows?) in the first one are really cool. Great work.

- Oshyan