Jet model from Anders Lejczak - colacola.se.
Just playing around a little bit, trying to get some decent faded clouds over the far distant hills.
EDIT
Final image can be found here:
http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=SAAB-JA37-VIGGEN.jpg&p=*full-image (http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=SAAB-JA37-VIGGEN.jpg&p=*full-image)
Awesome! Great model and the asphalt looks really nice and gritty gritty :) Very good background as well.
I only wish I could look a bit into the vents of the engines.
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Damn Good !
you succeeded with the faded clouds, that's for sure :-)
As always the colors are chosen perfectly - for everyting in the scene.
Cheers,
Frank
WOW! Awesome work! I love the tarmac, the stones are perfectly sized.
I think the clouds are already spot on. The gravel/tarmac/whatever looks fantastic too. My only complaint would be the DoF. It seems a bit strong for the size of the object and necessary distance to get this shot. Even if you could replicate this result with say a wide aperture lens (f/2.0 or wider), you usually want to stop down on landscape shots for sharpness and clarity. As a photograph I'd consider this interesting but not outstanding. Of course as a TG2 image it's excellent. ;)
- Oshyan
Thanks for the comments everyone. You are probably correct about the DOF Oshyan, I found the jet looked a little bit plastic and perfect so I wanted to rough it up a little bit. I'll post the original without any DOF later tonight.
Great image of the Saab JAS-39 Gripen I will talk about this image as if it where a photograph, generally the rule in aviation photography about cropped wing tips as a compositional device is to crop both wing tips: however I understand why you did not with the model in you image; as in real life by cropping both wing tips you'd lose the nose wheel, I can confirm this having seen the JAS-39 at Airshows on the static displays.
;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
Interesting tidbit Cyber-Angel, I haven't been to or photographed any airshows, but it is interesting to know. I choose this composition mainly so I could feature the jet in the left foreground, yet keep visible the clouds in the upper right background.
The jet, according to the modeller (Anders Lejczak - colacola.se) is a SAAB JA37 Viggen.
I can hear the jet engines cycling! How did you do that? :P
Here is the version with no DOF effect.
Quote from: RArcher on May 04, 2009, 11:24:59 AM
Interesting tidbit Cyber-Angel, I haven't been to or photographed any airshows, but it is interesting to know. I choose this composition mainly so I could feature the jet in the left foreground, yet keep visible the clouds in the upper right background.
The jet, according to the modeller (Anders Lejczak - colacola.se) is a SAAB JA37 Viggen.
Your Right about it been a JA37, that will teach me to do aircraft recognition late at night any way I found an example of the kind of composition I was talking about, the Aircraft just so happens to be a JA37 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JA_37_Viggen_front_view.jpg
Regards to you. ;D
Cyber-Angel
Beautiful lighting and detail in the tarmac
spot on!
Excellent render - love your mats - and yes, it's much better without the DoF
I prefer the one without the DOF, colour grading the render might give it a stylistic film look.
Interesting idea Saurav. I don't really know anything about colour grading, but here is my hacked film look attempt.
damn good !
Hi
Oh yes, it is!
ciao
Naoo
Cool. Now you're posting photos. :P Wha...?
Looks great with the grading, funny enough that was a similar look I was thinking for the render. ;D
Awesome work Ryan!
Martin
Here is my final update for this image. The first time I messed with the colours I was just playing around with my previous compressed image and it introduced a lot of gradients and compression artifacts. This time I went right back to the .exr and started from scratch. I also played around with adding a stained and weathered border which I don't usually bother with, but I think I am going to get this one printed to see how it looks.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, It is most certainly appreciated.
The image is too big to post here without adding too much jpg compression so you can find it here:
http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=SAAB-JA37-VIGGEN.jpg&p=*full-image (http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=SAAB-JA37-VIGGEN.jpg&p=*full-image)
-ryan
awesome. Done in a spirit of exploration, I couldn't help but add a little light bloom: the sky back there is so bright
and overexposed, the light would bleed into the darks. This can be simulated fairly convincingly by pulling a luminance mask, doing an "in" with the image in that mask,
then blurring that, than doing an "out" of that result and overing or screening it back on. If you blur too much, you start wrecking the scale. What really helps seal the deal,
if you have it available, is to mult the result of the previous procedure by a facing ratio render of your object, so that surfaces that are facing camera "block" more light bleeding, and surfaces that are approaching parallel to camera let more light bleed through. This was just a 1 minute quickie in photoshop, as I don't have a compositing package at home... fwiw...
Photorealistic! Just amazing! :o
Fantastic tarmac texture, and the clouds are lovely too. Maybe the tarmac is something you could sell via NWDA??