Spring Love - FINAL on page 3

[dlefik2008]

great, th lighting is top notch. About the tree in the foreground - run the trunk through another 3D application and apply a mesh smooth, then there´s no "that´s to close" problem.

Thanks Walli, you're over-estimating my skills, though, because  have no idea how to do that
My thought would be to run it through xfrog and give the trunk shape some more sides....

just noticed you said something about this because i was having this horrible problem with a black split going sdown the sides of my trees and was banging my head on the desk trying to figure out what i was doing wrong. well turned out i overlooked the option to adjust the number of sides on the trunk in onyxtree, and like a dummy was exporting my tress out of onyx with only 3 or 4 sides  . of course it'll shoot up the poly count significantly, depending on how many sides you really need, but i guess the whole point is anyone having problems with sharp curves on tree trunks should consider adding more sides, it helps.

[FrankB]

Smoothed tree trunk version. Unfortunatley I had lost the exact tree position, but this one is similar
I'll call this the final.
Thanks for all the comments, guys

Frank

[EoinArmstrong]

The lighting is just wonderful - brilliantly realistic!

[Henry Blewer]

Sorry Frank. I would have chosen a different tree. The branches are still a bit square. Everything else is spectacular!
(It looks so much better on my new monitor! I can see 128 gray levels, and the color is awesome.)

[Hannes]

I have to second that. The tree looks quite unrealistic compared to the incredible photoreality you achieved in this picture. I can't wait to use this DOF for this kind of images. Brilliant!

[Kadri]

Frank i think you are in a way on the last (final) stage problem ; finding-making really good objects that look realistic from near .
Otherwise your images are topnotch 

Kadri.

[FrankB]

You are right, the tree is giving it away as cg. I would love to have better trees. I would love to see us all have better and more realistic trees

[Kadri]

I think Walli and plant creators like him know this. They will make more realistics ones if there is a demand.
I have nothing bad to say about the old ones , but they are not good for nearer look . They will maybe more difficult  to make and sell .
Software is getting better , more ram and cores to render ...
But there is a demand definitely in my opinion . As we see here 

Kadri.

[Henry Blewer]

Both Walli and Marc have been wonderful to provide very good plants for us to use. Thank you. Others have done some very good objects also and they need to be thanked also. Fortunately the plant diversity is getting better!

[TheBlackHole]

This is CG, right?