Alpine Scene WIP UPDATE 1

[littlecannon]

Hi all.... As there has been some nice Alpine scenes recently, I thought I'd give it a whirl. This is using the NWDA Alpine presets with some playing around. Clouds from the cloud library ("a storm is coming", I think)... again, messed with and I have HDR'd it in Photomatix. I am going to change the lighting, so any comments and critique welcomed.
cheers,
Simon.

[Henry Blewer]

It looks like something Moses would climb to take some notes on behavior.
Stunning clouds. Very good beginning. I do not think I would change anything.

[Kevin F]

Beautiful mountain,snow and clouds. My on;y critique would be to have more "definition" in the mid foreground band of trees. They seem a little lost at present. Otherwise aok.

[littlecannon]

Thanks njeneb and I think your onto something there Kevin F, cheers.
Simon.

[FrankB]

It looks like something Moses would climb to take some notes on behavior.

Haahaha!!!  Very good

Littlecannon, great scales in this render!

regards,
Frank

[Gannaingh]

Hmmm, this looks sort of familiar  I really like the lighting in the scene, although the clouds IMO could use some more tweaking. I am always a fan of mountain scenes so I'm excited to see where you go with this.

[littlecannon]

Cheers Frank, and darthvader1... yes, it was your scene that inspired me to try this, I was blown away with the piece you created.
Cheers,
Simon.

[chris_x422]

Looking good Simon, nice scene, elements and sense of scale.

I think you're right to take another look at the lighting, there's a lot of pure white in the scene right now.
That has a tendancy to flatten the image and detract from all the detail and form you've got going on there.
It seems to be blowing out the whites in the clouds too.
Maybe try and reduce your main light a tad, and balance an occlusion env light in there to put a bit of blue in the shadows on the snow.

Hope that helps

Chris

[domdib]

Good advice from everyone here, and a very good beginning. Like darth, I'm a big fan of mountains. More please!

[Jack]

mmmmh the lighting at the bottom is perfect my sugesstion is is to create an extra image one with the lighting of the mountain at a higher exposure then blend both together in photoshop

[littlecannon]

Hi Peeps... I have done as the suggested. Changed the lighting, added Ambient Occlusion, Lowered the sun power. I still have to give more definition to the foreground trees (not sure how to at the mo) and the clouds are a bit better... any further C&C welcome.
Cheers,
Simon.

[domdib]

This is looking very good now - I love the really bright patch of sun high up. One question though - down near the bottom of the mountain there's some curious banded shadows - any idea what's causing it?

[Kadri]

This looks good Littlecannon.

The clouds could be tweeked a bit more i think.
But one thing made me curious. It is not important really. If domdib would not ask about the bottom shadows i wouldn't have seen this.
There are  some spots that seems like  stretched textures. But i think you didn't used any textures Littlecannon. Is there a strata node or is it just what it is?

Kadri.

[Henry Blewer]

It has a very majestic look to it now. I think the clouds do not match the tree scale.

[Mandrake]

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