Trees population study

[EmDee1]

Started this landscape a few weeks ago and wanted to play around a bit trying to learn and understand working with populations of tree, bushes and grasses. Spend much more time on the matter than I expected at first, but now I understand a lot more about placing the trees and bushes on the spots I want them to grow, working with image masks.

[dhavalmistry]

very nice work.....but I can barely make out the fore/middle ground trees....I am having hard time imagining the scale between foreground and background...

[EmDee1]

Thanks dhavalmistry for your comments; I guess you may have a point. I tried to make the left foreground part look like a spot where lots of reeds, a few bushes and trees were mixt together. It's a kind of low spot in the terrain, were you might expect the terrain get moistened from time to time; lots of reeds can grow there. But maybe the reed is not clearly enough "reed"...
Greetings.

[nvseal]

This looks really good. Great population work.

[Oshyan]

This looks excellent - highly realistic. It would be great to see it rendered larger. If you need help rendering large, I'd be glad to lend some time on one of my systems.

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

Great.  I've been looking at Vue 6 lately (sales, sales and more sales), but this rivals anything I've seen there.  Nice and green.   

[EmDee1]

Thanks for your kind replies folks. I rendered this image at 2000x1500 pix, that took about then hours. For the upload I had to make it smaller though.
Maybe I get a reasenable printing-result at 9,5x7 inch. If not: I'll render it larger; when I run into trouble (rendering for days for example) I may accept your kind offer, Oshyan...

[Oshyan]

Ah, then your problem is saving a jpg with higher than necessary quality settings. If you have Photoshop, use Save for Web and about 80% quality. It's a common myth that saving at "12" (or anything over 10 for that matter) will make a visual difference, when in fact in 99% of cases it doesn't. Otherwise, if you're using another app, try reducing the quality (or increasing the compression) a bit. An 800x600 image should be no more than 400kb even at very high quality, and that will fit within the posting limits here. I'd just love to see this larger.

- Oshyan

[EmDee1]

Here's a larger one, hope it works...

[dhavalmistry]

it does work....but what is that dark stuff in the shadows in middleground....looks like those trees arent textured perhaps??.....and the big square thing in the background....looks like a container....

[sonshine777]

Looks great! The only thing I would suggest is to do some postwork on the floating leaves on the foreground branches. After that is done you will have an excellent piece.

[EmDee1]

Hey Dhavalmistry,
Dark stuff: I guess you mean the shadows in between the reedbushes...And in the background there's is house... Oh well, maybe some houses look like containers...

[EmDee1]

You're right sonshine, seems I've lost some small twigs there...grrr, have to render again...

[Tangled-Universe]

This looks great! I like the natural appearance of the bushes, look photo-realistic, well done!
I'd also love to see this one in high-res

Martin

[EmDee1]

Fixed the lost twigs in the foreground branches.