Coming to Grips with Bloom

[masonspappy]

Durn Bobby that looks quite alright!

[bobbystahr]

Durn Bobby that looks quite alright!

Thanks and as always thanks to all for advice

[Dune]

I think you should take the shine off for a great deal; the reflective shader, and lower the reflectivity in the default, or just slide the PF (masking those) all the way to nearly black.

[bobbystahr]

I think you should take the shine off for a great deal; the reflective shader, and lower the reflectivity in the default, or just slide the PF (masking those) all the way to nearly black.

I'd considered that; and as the rendertimes are painlessly fast it's way more fun iterating...izzat a werd?

[Dune]

Iterating... you should know, you're the American, not me 

[DocCharly65]

In my eyes a nice muddy ground, Bobby.

I don't know the swamps in real live but in my imagination I am missing just two things:
Many ferns and a little bit stagnant water (like it looked in the first image but with almost now waves)
What do you mean?

[bobbystahr]

Thanks for all the comments...thought about ferns but stayed with a few mosses and the water is still there but for some reason isn't as visible...never touched it either. Here's possibly a final update incorporating Dune's last suggestions and I upped the AA to 7 and the Detail to .6...both up 1 digit. Added 2 hours to the render time....but I was sleeping so it went fast, heh heh

[Dune]

I still don't understand what these light areas on the ground are. If you can get rid of those, it would benefit the render greatly, I think.

[bobbystahr]

Iterating... you should know, you're the American, not me 

Uh that's Canadian, we elected a sane leader...

[Dune]

Oh yeah, sorry. Same as calling me a German or Belgian 

[bobbystahr]

I still don't understand what these light areas on the ground are. If you can get rid of those, it would benefit the render greatly, I think.

me neither and searching with preview colours revealed nothing...maybe it's the water we're seeing...I'll check it's reflection level

[bobbystahr]

Oh yeah, sorry. Same as calling me a German or Belgian 

normally it'd be like water off a duck's back but their current insanity they're going through scares me spit less and I seem a tad touchy....I think planetside should move back to Scotland it so scary down there in the usa

[bobbystahr]

I still don't understand what these light areas on the ground are. If you can get rid of those, it would benefit the render greatly, I think.

It's the water reflectivity...should have checked that first as it was likely the problem all along

[Dune]

Render away then....

[bobbystahr]

Render away then....

4 more tests I found it's still the stones reflectivity, plus the water was all but gone compared to render 1 so I raised that and cut the reflectivity way down to almost nada. I think most if not all that disturbing(to both of us) white will be gone. Going to try a smaller render for proof of concept and if successful will do a proper one overnight as my box only really is handling one task at a time lately and I have an album cover to work on.