Lone Oak

[moodflow]

Here's an image I did featuring the "Gnarled Oak" tree from Floraworks (many thanks guys!).  I wanted a simple image featuring the oak, with a nice sunny backdrop.  The grass is from Lighting, but with a few shader tweaks.

Stats:
Res:  1024x786
Quality:  1
Render Time:  3h45m

Very minor post work in Photoshop:  levels, color balancing, selective sharpening/blurring

For some reason, the oak was a bit on the dark side, but it seems to be isolated to his image only.  I assume its just the lighting of the image itself.

Anyway, many thanks for looking.  More to come.

[lightning]

hay this looks really nice!! i like how the bark of the gnarled oak turned out the leaves look a little dark though? im sure i set the translucency to a reasonable level
anyway the grass looks great i like the colour!
are those clouds made in terragen? the shapes of them look so natural and realistic !

[moodflow]

Yea, not sure why the leaves came out so dark.  It could be the lighting.  I have the translucency set to 2.

The clouds are standard TG2 clouds, with a few "inside tweaks".   

[sjefen]

Wow moodflow. Ths is really great. The grass is really nice and the clouds are magnificent.
I agree about the leaves. They don't really fit in with the rest. The whole scene is so bright and sunny.

- Terje

[Mandrake]

Should be in the next Harry Potter, moodflow.

[Cyber-Angel]

I have seen oak trees like this, under the right lighting conditions sun light when the sun is at a certain angle is unable to produce Back-Light (This is were leaves appear at their most translucent) as we have here. Also if a trees canopy is of a certain density then due to multiple scattering, and that light falls off proportionally to distance traveled, the tree i question may look quite dark any way. All in all I like this image the way it is, the darkness of the tree and the brightness of its surroundings provide visual counterpoint to one another.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel     

[RArcher]

Very nice work!  Nice and simple (in presentation) and very realistic.

[rcallicotte]

I love it.  I love it.  I love it.

A tribute to Lightning's creativity and craftsmanship as well as a significant work of beautiful art of Moodflow's.  Though I'd wish for more gamma inside that tree to see the leaves and limbs better from here, this is a fine render. 

[old_blaggard]

Very nice image .

[lightning]

I have seen oak trees like this, under the right lighting conditions sun light when the sun is at a certain angle is unable to produce Back-Light (This is were leaves appear at their most translucent) as we have here. Also if a trees canopy is of a certain density then due to multiple scattering, and that light falls off proportionally to distance traveled, the tree i question may look quite dark any way. All in all I like this image the way it is, the darkness of the tree and the brightness of its surroundings provide visual counterpoint to one another.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel     

well that makes it even more realistic! also i like how the knot on the trunk came out in this render