Meadow View

[aknight0]

I've been working on this one for a few weeks, and the final at 4k took 41 hours with the path tracer, which I think is a new record for me.  Background mountains are Gaea with added displacements in Terragen.  Vegetation Xfrog and ArchModels.  My main goal here was something I've been trying to do for a long time, which was to get a decent-looking alpine meadow into a full scene. 

[raymoh]

You have succeeded very well. It reminds me of some areas here in the Swiss Alps. Allow me a brief comment: Compared to the very realistic landscape, the clouds seem a bit "artificial" to me. The cloud edges are too sharp for me and seem so somewhat "unnatural". But that is my personal impression. All in all, a very nice picture.
By the way: I know such long render times as well.  :-) ... and the impatience to wait for the result, whether it corresponds to the ideas.

[Hannes]

Wow, beautiful!!!! I'm sure the vegetation wouldn't look so natural without the path tracer. But I have to say, I agree, that the clouds are by far not as good as the rest. I'm not sure, if you would do another render for more than 40 hours. Maybe a crop render only with the cloud area?

[KlausK]

Looking beautiful.
Also agree on the clouds...if you don`t mind, in my mind I`d rather see this kind of sky

CHeers, Klaus

[Jo Kariboo]

Very beautiful picture, nice variation on the mountain. Clouds as others have mentioned don't look natural in this context.

[aknight0]

Thanks!  Fair point on the clouds.  The sky actually renders pretty quickly compared to the ground, so I might try another crop render with a cloud re-mix.

[aknight0]

Or I might just use the sky replacement tool in Photoshop 

Haha, it's actually not too bad! 

[Hannes]

That looks indeed cool!!!

[pclavett]

The clouds on the second render are perfect and love that rain like mist behind the mountains...... this is awesome work !