bandolin opened this issue on Sep 23, 2004 ยท 22 posts
drawbridgep posted Fri, 24 September 2004 at 10:00 AM
It is difficult to decide when a Bryce picture stops being a Bryce picture. We've discussed this since I joined R'osity. Since I have two pictures in the hot 20 I've got to assume that at least one, probably both, you (RobertJ) don't think should be there. I can assure you , both pictures were modelled with Bryce primitives and rendered in Bryce. I do play around with them in Photoshop. But I think I'd rather post a picture that I'm happy with rather than pure Bryce for the sake of it. I did use a lot of filters on my Venice picture. But I don't think it detracts from the fact that I spent 6 hours modelling in Bryce, 4 hours rendering in Bryce and 30 minutes in Photoshop. The pipes picture was even longer to model and render (softshadows blah) and even less time in Photoshop. I consider them Bryce rather than photoshop. Saying that though, I do agree that you can't just paste a picture of the Mona Lisa to a cube then render it in Bryce and call it Bryce. But tonal, contrast and colour adjustments and even detail work like highlights and fixing problems I think is fine. It's a judgement call. On the other hand (Is that 3 now) you may have considered that my pictures are valid for the Hot20, in which case, I'll shut up.