Pantase

[Henry Blewer]

 I did not know what to call this one...

Thanks go to Walli (Jan Walter Schliep) for his marvelous plants. FrankB, Schmeerlap (John), and Tangled Universe (Martin) for the good advise. I have probably forgotten some people, I am sorry. Of course Planetside!

I changed my method of doing things in this one. I did the terrain first, lighting, clouds, lighting, POV, lighting, clouds, and then added the plants.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4262487272_d1c23d48ef_o.jpg

[dandelO]

Nice one, Henry. That's very realistic, very rugged. I like it a lot.

[domdib]

Very nice mid-ground. My only suggestion is perhaps a little bit more variation in the rock colour.

[Tangled-Universe]

Hi Henry, this looks really nice and detailed, especially from midground on. Good clouds as well.
I'd only make the grasses twice smaller and twice dense. Think that might look a bit better.

How did you set up the area of your grass-population? You save a lot of RAM by either clipping it to the camera or setting up the smallest minimal area (I often do both, saves RAM and populates fast).

Keep it up!
Martin

[FrankB]

This is remarkeable, Henry, congratulations!

[Henry Blewer]

I did use clip to camera. The grass/crocus area is only about 500 x 500 scale units. I did try the grass shorter, but it all but did not show up.

Thanks for the comments. I am happy with how this turned out. I was going for a Japanese Print look.

[schmeerlap]

I did use clip to camera.

My TG2.1 just got better. Thanks for drawing my attention to this new feature.
How did I not see it  

Btw: very nice image. As TU said, shorter/denser grass would be even better.

John

[EoinArmstrong]

Superb lighting and pov - those crocuses are lovely

[Kadri]

Nice scene , Njeneb  
The image has a kind of a flatness  from lighting point of view. I don't know why but the foreground could be more vibrant .
Do you use too much haze or other setup ?

Kadri.

[MGebhart]

Henry,

This one of the better images I've seen. Excellent.

Marc

[FrankB]

for higher dynamics you need to sacrifice some of the gradient in the sky, except if you can start from an .exr.
See attached.

[sjefen]

I think the rocks look like clay. They need some more details.
Other then that, it's a very good piece. I like it very much

Regards,
Terje

[Henry Blewer]

 I knew I should have saved the exr file
It would have been fun to post and let everyone play with it. Maybe I will find a new POV and render this one again. Can Terragen.org accept exr?

[Linda McCarthy]

Hi njeneb,
I've been accused of overstating and prone to gush, but I honestly think you've created perfection here.
Sooo beautiful, and your work is outstanding- in all aspects. 
Thanks for the inspiration!
Linda

[Henry Blewer]

Thanks Linda. I think it is one of the best renders I have done to date. As I wrote, I was going for a Japanese Print look. I kept my Zen focus and did not want to over populate the scene. I found an image of the Japanese Character for Happy. I may do something in Blender with the image and a 3D object of the character. It will make a nice backdrop.