As soon as Walli posted his new cactus I knew I was going to have to do something with it. I made it a few times bigger than what he had intended it to be, but I wanted it to be the main focus here. Spent a good amount of time working on a pretty nice fake stone bed and then cranked the sun elevation up to be sometime around noon so I would get some hard shadows and promptly blew out the sand and dirt altogether, oh well. Added a variety of other cacti and then rendered. Re-rendered the image using distance shaders to make a depth mask and then postworked the depth of field. Thanks to Walli for the great detailed cactus.
This is a fun little image :). It's a good showcase of Walli's plant, and the other elements (such as the lighting and distribution of the other cacti) are pleasing as well. Nice job.
nice hard light !
Step carefully. Looks like the real thing.
funny, I never have seen so much of my plants in such an "intensity". Grasses don´t count here, cause you seldom can spot separate individuals.
Nice one!
Wow... just wow!
sharp!
great collection of cacti!
nice work Ryan
is dof post?
Thanks everyone, it was a fun waste of an afternoon for sure.
Yes the depth of field was done in post Dhavalmistry. Details were in the original post for how I did it.
Great work Ryan, I'm a real fan of cactus. Coincidentally, I'm also working with Walli's new cactus.