Dusk Orbit: Mission Support Transporter Unloading by wblack
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Dusk Orbit: Mission Support Transporter Unloading In Mars Orbit
This is an on-going series -- previous posts are linked below.
Returning Mission Transporter’s are met by a series of 12 Nuclear SSTO flights off-loading the 30K ton load of recovered raw materials, delivering the material to surface installations for use in the terraforming process.
Background Mars image is a unique treatment of NASA source photographs -- processed by me in Adobe Photoshop to show the planet from its night side.
Mars Colony Terraforming Program Image Links:
Mars Colony: The Expanding Frontier
Discarding Stages
Discarding Stages: A New Perspective
Prospecting Callisto
Callisto Production Field
Flight Control Station
Command & Control Deck
Crew Quarters
Mars Colony Heavy Lift Nuclear SSTO
Mars Colony Nuclear SSTO Launch
Mars Colony Nuclear SSTO Approach to Touchdown
Nuclear SSTO Orbital Operations
Nuclear SSTO Diagram
Mars Terraforming Program Orion Launch Site
Callisto Orbital Loading Operation
All models are my own. Models constructed in Bryce 6.5 and rendered in Bryce 7 Pro.
As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.
Comments (10)
tommorules
Looks amazing full-size, great stuff!
MarkHirst
I really like these believable design space craft images, makes me think the future we saw as kids is still within reach.
flavia49
extraordinary
mwthunderclap
COOL!
geirla
Very nice scene! Great detail on both vehicles.
NefariousDrO
Nice work, I love the designs for the ships and the superb composition. The level of detail and realism is a real inspiration for me.
peedy
Fantastic! Awesome modeling and detail. Corrie
Diemamker
A look in future mars missions...awesome space sci-fi, and hopeful future...well done!..
WZRD
Another good picture here but again the planet and the ship are lit from conflicting directions creating a visual disconnection that spoils the sense of reality.
wblack
WZRD, In regards to lighting -- my considered opinion differs. The lighting is correct for the scene. Planet and the space craft are illuminated from the same direction, and correctly so. Looking at your other comments, and also at your gallery, I can see that you perhaps fail in an understanding of lighting as it pertains to images taken in space. I have created a specialized lighting rig for these images -- to capture the intensity of lighting on objects. I am most satisfied with the results -- and if you study images (ISS construction images come to mind as a good example) taken in orbit you will see the obvious similarities to my work. In space, since there is no atmosphere to carry ambiance, shadow is much deeper, and visually to the human eye (as well as the camera lens) this shadow is often pitch black -- but not always so. Where one object is capturing and reflecting light onto another object -- depending on the reflectivity of the material involved, even within these very dark shadows, the glow of back-scattered light can illuminate. In space objects can and do reflect light upon each other especially if those objects are highly reflective themselves. The only other thing I think you might be missing here is the artificial illumination cast by spot lights mounted both within the payload-bay of the Nuclear SSTO and upon the Payload Return Mission Support Transporter -- view full size and their presence becomes appairient.