My first serious attempt at b/w.
Ansel Adams is such a great inspiration.
Not only for his zone-system invention, but he was also a great photographer without it.
Excellent, I particularly like the grainy sky!
Nice displacements and snow, always loved B/W images. This is a Special piece
1950 somewhere in the Alps... Great! Love it! :)
Well if there's someone to be inspired by, they're a great choice. Don't forget he was also a huge fan of exposure blending, masking and all kinds of things that you might associate with Photoshop. ;) Ie, cheat if you need to. :D
Personally I'd break up the rocks a bit so as to help sell the overall magnitude of the scene, ie some areas of smaller rocks, some much smaller.
I'd post something now to demonstrate what I mean but I'm on a weighty NDA here. Really should post an image or two occasionally to prove I do use Terragen. Ha!
Quote from: ajcgi on June 02, 2016, 05:13:31 AM
Well if there's someone to be inspired by, they're a great choice. Don't forget he was also a huge fan of exposure blending, masking and all kinds of things that you might associate with Photoshop. ;) Ie, cheat if you need to. :D
Personally I'd break up the rocks a bit so as to help sell the overall magnitude of the scene, ie some areas of smaller rocks, some much smaller.
I'd post something now to demonstrate what I mean but I'm on a weighty NDA here. Really should post an image or two occasionally to prove I do use Terragen. Ha!
The exposure blending is what I meant with the "zone system" as he formally called it.
But yes, you're right.
This render was subject to quite a bit of Photoshop work, which usually is not my forte.
The sense of scale is a bit weak here indeed, also the sky doesn't really help there.
Yes please post your stuff! :)
Keep in mind though, it's a fallacy to think you can't comment/criticise if you're not equally experienced or not even using the software. No problem at all!
Thanks for a great image and one that I can see exactly the same as non colourblind folks do. A big fan of Adams as I once hung out with a woman photographer who was obsessed and I got to see a lot of this style.Well done from my PoV
Nice work!
Thank you guys :)
Great render!