Pretty autumn colors! I like what you have so far. Keep us posted on this.

Looks good so far..to "clear up the clutter", for a first step you might try widening the POV to 65-70...something like that. You can dial it back from too wide, and I've found that often improves a scene...I know what you mean about Bryce skies, I tend to be so bad at dialing them I use the presets mildly tweaked mostly.. ...

How do the trees look as far as realism goes? Are they convincing or do they still look like Bryce trees? I'm a little to close to know for sure. It helps to click on the pic to see a bigger image of it.

Umm, I'm having a dumb moment. How do you widen the POV to 65 or 70?
Thanks

Go into perspective and select "attributes". Then adjust the pov to whatever number you want - lower numbers mean a closer view and higher mean a wider view

I think the colors are beautiful...and the leaves do look realistic..at least to me.
Looking forward to seeing how you finish it.

Thanks rstar!
I'm rendering a new view atm. Then I'll go in and try the POV attributes.
:)

Forgot to mention, I'm using a photo I took of the sky.

:blushing: I thought I knew where to go, but I couldn't find any place for perspective attributes. I'm sure its easy and I'm just having a moment.

I like the 1st pic and think it has possibilities to do something interesting as is but the 2nd one is easier to view

I think the lighting is too bright in the 2nd one, I'm going to try toning it down a bit. But not tonight, its getting late and I still have to RW things to do.

WTG, Ang!!

Gotta love Bryce for all it's myriad paths to the same place.. ...

Still waiting for the 'Make art like Rochr' button.

Quote - Still waiting for the 'Make art like Rochr' button.

Indeed...LOL...I as well would love an "Easter Egg" like that...anyone know where it is?.. ...

Thanks everyone. I'm at work right now, but will have to check out all three ways when I get home. You'd think with 3 possible routes I'd have been able to find it. The only place I came close was with the one Bobby pointed out. Not sure what I was doing wrong.  I can't see the words on this monitor at work so I won't know till I get home, exactly where to look.

OT to Quest. I dropped my car off to be fixed and although today is much much warmer, I still had to put my hood up because yep.. It's Friggin Snowing again grrrrrr. When will it end? Crap its only November. This is going to be a brutal winter, I can feel it.

Well gotta run, those library people want their books, lol.

Same here ang...but just light dustings so far after a killer 4 inches of stuff that turned the sidewalks abd roads int skating rinks for a week...sigh...then it all sorta started disappearing and simply threatening, but our east coast [canada] really got it the weekend.. ...

threatening to rain here - I suspect it's a tempest in a teapot but then again . . . well, we'll see.

BTW: nice colors, Ang ! ! !

Ang that actually looks like some photos I took while down in the mountains this fall. Nice work.

Bryster, I've been looking for that button for years, but you know how those tentacled people are.

Nice work Ang, how's you're hand at postwork in a 2D editor? Setting a DOF blur in the forground (slightly) and the focus being in the distance could possibly give you a photo look, especially with the shadowing you've got here.

Just wanted to take this op to say "Hi Ang"...Like your trees..Thats what it looked like along the Rio Grande last week..

I think I like the first one best, Ang. The second one is nice but seems like it`s waiting for something else, it is a wip. The first just screams autumn, a little abstract but powerful. IMHO.
Enjoy your snowball fights.

You guys have no idea how Ang just hates snow and for good reason...there's always snow on the ground there for the better part of the winter and then some. Makes it difficult to drive around in and then you've got those pesky deers to watch out for. I've seen lots of deer splatter up there when I go visiting with her...really scary.

It has gotten up into the upper 30's F for the past 3 or 4 days without any new snowfall and sadly, the only ground I see is where I've shoveled a path. Maybe by the end of March the ground will resurface.  Right now the snow isn't deep but it is still covering the landscape, sigh.
The deer have been hiding, its hunting season. But I'm sure they will reappear soon.
Back to my WIPs, I've tried a couple more things but with disasterous results. Will keep trying, because I've got good colors going.
Thanks for all the comments!

let it snow, snow, snow! wonderful image!!!!