Continuous landscape

[Dune]

Update, but now stitched together from 8 (ratio 1:2) turning cam's renders. Rendering (and working) in one stretched (1:15) image ratio is very cumbersome (to say the least), and this would be much easier. Only now the stitching will take its toll from my machine, I'm afraid. So perhaps I can work in this file and then switch to a final 1:15 render.

[AndyWelder]

Looking forward to see more of this.
This is the region of the Netherlands where I grew up so it's very dear to me and in my childhood it wasn't as populated as nowadays so I can somehow relate to what you're rendering.

[Dune]

Updated a bit.

[zaxxon]

Masterful! 

[Oshyan]

Looking very promising. Are you now settled on the stitching approach for the project instead of a single scene/render?

- Oshyan

[Dune]

No, I still prefer a single shot (min 2400x36,000px for 20dpi, max 4800x72,000px for 40dpi). The problem with stitching is that the files will be quite big, and I don't know if my pc can cope with that. Especially since I will loose some edges here and there, so the renders should be much larger as well.
Also, with stitched images, I can only turn the camera and make a half circular panorama. So the sun will rotate with the views. That might be interesting in a circular exposition, but on a large straight wall a sun in one position might be more realistic.

Like this:

[Henry Blewer]

Would using a camera with a 20 degree fov work. Each section of the whole image is made by rotating the camera to the edge of the last image. 20 degrees would have little distortion.

[Dune]

I assume you then get a telephoto effect, bringing the distance closer in, but I can try. I did try all sorts of things, even changing the film size to 45x3, but this seems the best way. Even a little distortion will force me to stitch large files, with this setup I can just render away, be it in crops. They'd have to be printed in panels anyway.