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Subject: Help with image

creed2003 opened this issue on Mar 12, 2005 · 15 posts

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creed2003 ( ) posted Sat, 12 March 2005 at 1:36 AM · edited Wed, 15 January 2025 at 12:50 AM

I've been working on this image with two P51 Mustangs flying over some islands. I'm trying to create the illusion of height and it just doesn't look right to me. The image looks flat, no depth to it. Any ideas on what I need to do to make this image look better???

wabe ( ) posted Sat, 12 March 2005 at 3:21 AM

To me you are not far away. It LOOKS high already. Only the background (the islands i think) is too regular spread out. No dynamic in there, nothing where the eye can have a point to identify what it is and how big things are. Maybe some bigger islands and not so many, maybe a ship that the viewer can see and has something to compare sizes. A big tanker for example. We know how big it really is and then can compare how high we must be so that is looks small. Kenwas for example is a master of playing with depth. There we all can learn a lot about that. And Criss3d too, his panoramic landscapes are perfect to study this.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

creed2003 ( ) posted Sat, 12 March 2005 at 10:44 AM

Thanks for the tips!!!

DVcreator ( ) posted Sat, 12 March 2005 at 4:35 PM

D-Day Mustangs, European theater, North sea/ English channel is a green-grey, maybe between clumps of islands are looking at a flightline of about 12000' to 15000' Looks good R

squid69 ( ) posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 3:33 AM

Prolly not much help, perhaps use depth of field to blur out the oceans / island.

creed2003 ( ) posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 8:22 AM

Thanks for all the advice. I'm going to reduce the number of islands and change the color/texture of the water. Maybe add a tanker as well, we will see how it comes out.

agiel ( ) posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 9:58 AM

There is also a problem of scale between the islands and the waves. If, like I am assuming, the black spots are supposed to be islands, then the waves seem as large as most of them, which would translate in some kind of tsunami down below. At that altitude, waves should be no more than just little white specks.

agiel - www.linfa.net

agiel ( ) posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 10:02 AM

Attached Link: http://www.henryisland.com/henryisland/satellite_view.htm

Here is an example of what I mean. Look at this picture - the waves are already very small and the island is still quite big in the picture.

agiel - www.linfa.net

creed2003 ( ) posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 9:59 PM

Ahh, I see your point. The waves do look kind of large now that I compared it to the image in the link. I'll have to fix that too. See, I'm glad I posted it in the forum!!! Thanks everyone!!!

Muggle6 ( ) posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 1:15 AM

Saw your pic in: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12368&Form.ShowMessage=2168610&Reply=2172445#61 and have to say: WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT!!! Actually to me there is nothing to complain about! Or well, one thing ;-): Maybe your can blur the propeller of the right Mustang a little bit more (but don't ask me how...) Mike

agiel ( ) posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 5:36 AM

creed - could you post your improved picture here instead of that other discussion ? That way it will be a lot easier to see the improvement and make additional comments.

agiel - www.linfa.net

creed2003 ( ) posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 8:25 AM

Sure!!! I'll attach the image here. Does any one know where I can get a model of a battle cruiser??? I think that's the one missing piece. Thanks for the compliment Mike!!