A Moment's Distraction

[schmeerlap]

Walking rather than talking, at last.
Grass and Bushes = Lightning; Common Spruce = Floraworks.
Dead tree, hiker, dog, and plane Photoshopped onto render.

John

[inkydigit]

nice fresh feel here...perfect for a hike....not sure about the plane(my taste just!)

[rcallicotte]

I agree about the freshness.  The grass needs some randomness...too many patterns to look real.  For me, if you just had the guy in the front in the image, it would have looked almost real.

[FrankB]

I like it. We don't see people in TG2 renders often, so this is a nice change to the usual.
Problem is, the person looks more real than the rest of the image. Part of the reason for that lies in the light dynamics (or better lack thereof) of the render. I think you should dare increasing contrast.

Frank

[domdib]

I like the sense of scale. However, the person in particular does look 'shopped. Maybe Frank's suggestion would help?

[schmeerlap]

Yeh, this was something of an it's-about-time-I-posted-an-image render; a bit contrived, perhaps. The plane: yeh, the guy could have just been enjoying the view but I thought I'd give him something more definitive to look at. And, yep, I see I've over-shopped the guy with negative contrast (probably comes from having a fear of replicating the copy-paste and can't-be-bothered-to-blend-it-in examples I've seen at R elsewhere). The grass: hmm, "can do better" must go on my report.

John

[DaveC]

The landscape is great a little work on incorporating the photoshop objects would help.

[Henry Blewer]

Hey John,
I think all the landscape needs is a little color variation on the grass. Just enough to take it off the one green. Maybe use Blend by shader with a large scale power fractal created just for that purpose.
A billboard plane with the hiker alpha'd and color mapped to it might work. The atmosphere settings would 'blend' the hiker right in this way.
Regards,
Henry