Something I made for friends of ours, a scene in a small Dutch medieval village. It's their house, dating back to around 1600 AD.
Wow, that's super beautiful!! I love the characters. The lighting is perfect, and looking at the picture it feels like being a part of the scene.
Thanks, Hannes. I thought you'd like this. The lighting had to be adjusted through a large luminous plane hovering over the front area, or the darks/shadows would have been way too dark in a standard PT render.
Quote from: Dune on October 10, 2021, 05:21:38 AMThe lighting had to be adjusted through a large luminous plane hovering over the front area
That's a very good solution with gives you a nice natural lighting.
Lucky friends. This is super.
Beautiful lighting! Especially captivating is the the young woman fully lit with that magnificent Oak in the back: a 'crop' of that would be worthy of a fine art piece for sure! As usual the thought and planning of the tableau leads the viewer into so many story lines being played out; the rider, the tradesman, the young girl - the whole scene feels like a slice of a larger story being enacted. You deservedly earn so many superlatives here, and I congratulate you on yet another Masterpiece, but mainly let me thank you for this marvelous image, it has brightened my day and left me both humbled and inspired...
Wow that looks great!
Thanks very much for your stimulating comments!! :)
I love it!
That looks pretty darn real!
I had it printed, but it turned out really dark (left was about how I saw it, right is the print sort of). So I have to do something about calibration :( but not by expensive device...
Excellent scene, I particularly like the subtleties of shadows and lights. Your vegetations are superb!
Realistic as if you were there! I like the scene very much. Great work, Ulco!
Looks great!
Quote from: Dune on October 15, 2021, 02:56:01 AMI had it printed, but it turned out really dark (left was about how I saw it, right is the print sort of). So I have to do something about calibration :( but not by expensive device...
Do you convert the document to print colour space so you have idea of colour tones? Try converting to CMYK.
Here is the example I get calibrating for my printer, which has no toner so I can't really test, but the CMYK version is noticeably darker when prepped for clear coat printer. Left is CMYK.
As far as I remember, the print will be darker than the PC, because my monitor doesn't use a brightness range around 50%, but 100%, plus the backlight at 100% so what I see is much brighter than it should be on print. An EXR will also be naturally darker because of the range.
Thanks, Jordan. I contacted the printer's, and he offered to do an optimized version (which I didn't check when ordering). That one turned out just fine.
I don't know if they really use CMYK when doing digital prints. The print I ordered was on photographic paper and I'd expect they just light the paper from the (RGB) file, and develop. When real dyes are used for single prints they are often 8 colors or so, so not really CMYK too, I believe. For book editions it's CMYK.
Anyway, CMYK always turns out a little greyish (on my monitor), and I never liked needing it.
Your CMYK version is just a tad darker than the right version, but my print was really dark.
The guy also adviced me to use the dark print to calibrate my monitor, so I set it darker. Perhaps better for the eyes too 8)
Today 2 TG prints on canvas and panel will be delivered to a local museum (2x4m and 120x190cm), and I can't wait to check out what they made of it. I so hope they're okay...