Bastet Oracle 3 - Revealed by Ramathep
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For those who have asked me for: this Image have a Story and a procedure.
1.- The Story: Bastet oracle is intended to paint an end. The last days of Egyptian empire. August 1st of 30 before Christ. Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra are about to die in few hours, but they don´t know. Marcus Antonius; surrounded by the troops of Octaviano in Alexandria has lost all of his power ond opportunities. Cleopatra is hidden in some place of the city but someone has told him that she has died. Marcus goes to the temple and looks to the figure of cat goddes Bastet, seeing in the reflections of gold, the summary of his life and failure. Later he will commit suicide, rushing on their own sword. Before dying, someone will take him in presence of Cleopatra, and her, some time later takes off her own life too.
I have moved figures before render until the reflections in cat golden mirror surface have talked by themselves. There are at least 3 times the figure of Marcus Antonius reflected in gold. One, the face sad expression, the arms and body distorted like a symbol of power failure and bad political decissions and the face again with a cloudy macula over eyes and front like symbol of defeat and blindness.
Hope you like it.
Ramathep
2.- The procedure: normal renders, photographs or images have a range of luminance that is limited and cannot show the things like one can see with human eyes. This makes the ilustrations sometimes a little bit... smoothed. To achieve in this image a special effect of real tones and to reproduce part of the gradient of luminance like in real vision in a simple jpg, I have carried out some steps: first creat a work with a bigger spectrum in HDRI and later trying to apply algorithms of tone mapping and after take it again to jpg. This is not effective in 100% and creates a litle bit of Ghostly dark over tones, but increases the possibility of capturing real tones and gradations that cannot be seen in a normal image, and was necessary to achieve the effects we wanted here. (Thanks to Rafal Mantiuk, Karol Myszskowsky and Hans_Peter Seidel for their investigations about contrast processes in Hi Dynamic Range photos).
Comments (3)
velasco
Estupenda imagen muy elaborada. Estupendas las texturas y reflejos
Radar_rad-dude
A superb masterpiece! Thanks also for the descriptions you have accompany this excellent artwork! Very well done and much appreciated! 1,000,000,000++++++++++
Jaml
Fantástica!!!!