Drought

[Lady of the Lake]

Trees by X-Frog; crack clip by Dandelo; some of the vegetation from Silva3d

Thanks for looking.

[choronr]

I like this. The color and texture variance of the mountain is striking. This is one of your best images.

[Dune]

Agreed. The stone surface is very nice as well, a bit basalt-like, you probably used a low octave voronoi billow to raise them? Would be interesting to have them rise more at certain locations, like the giant causeway.

[Hannes]

Looks great. Although I'm not quite sure about the post processing. I find the graininess a bit disturbing.

[masonspappy]

The lower half is good.  I like the texturing.  The sky is kind of grainy though. (Maybe more samples in the render?)

[Lady of the Lake]

Looks great. Although I'm not quite sure about the post processing. I find the graininess a bit disturbing.

I didn't realize how grainy it looked .....I will re-do and post the update.  Thanks for the reply.

[Lady of the Lake]

The lower half is good.  I like the texturing.  The sky is kind of grainy though. (Maybe more samples in the render?)

You and Hannes both mentioned the image being grainy and I agree, will re-do.   Thanks for the reply.

[Lady of the Lake]

Agreed. The stone surface is very nice as well, a bit basalt-like, you probably used a low octave voronoi billow to raise them? Would be interesting to have them rise more at certain locations, like the giant causeway.

Thanks.  No, to the voronoi billow, Dune.  But it is a good idea to try for another time.

[Lady of the Lake]

A bit better perhaps?  I have the Atmosphere samples set at 16; each of the cloud layers at Quality 4, sample 1.  What should these be?

[choronr]

Looks much better. As for the settings, it sometimes depends upon the sun's position in relation to the camera. My last image had the sun almost directly facing the camera. Settings: Atmo @ 96 (quite high); Clouds @ 1.00207 . Render: Detail @ 0.78; AA @ 7. I also had the enviro-light set at 8 which was very high; but, it was needed due to the low sun.

Crop the worst condition of your image graininess and test/experiment with different settings till you get it right.

[masonspappy]

Really good improvement on the sky. 

[Oshyan]

The graininess is almost certainly coming from some post processing setting, it does not look like renderer-generated noise. Either you are using some kind of strong postwork sharpening filter, or some other filter that adds noise in some way, perhaps unknowingly/unintentionally (for example many "Instagram" type filters add noise by default).

- Oshyan

[Lady of the Lake]

Here it is with NO postwork.  Still not sharp and clear. ??

[yossam]

That looks better Lyla. 

[Oshyan]

Looks much better to my eye, no noise in the sky.

- Oshyan