That's my husband David and I, and my beloved kitty Lucia. Lucia adopted me in 1996, and David and I found each other here..we started as best of friends, and are still soulmates. We were married in England on 6 May, 2005.
BIOI've been dabbling in digital art for about 6 years, starting with Bryce 3. I think I've improved quite a bit. I've been at Rendero for quite a few years; enjoy the forums and galleries. I do graphics mainly as stress relief, and also because I can't draw with a pencil and paper worth a damn! (Didn't inherit any of my father's prodigious artistic talent)
The main programs I'm using these days are Vue Infinite, Poser 4.03, 5 and 6, PhotoShop 6 and CS, and PaintShop Pro 7 & 8. I also play with Terragen and Mojoworld 2 & 3 (among others).
I don't really stick to one genre; I've been bouncing between nature scenes, portraits, with and without postwork, people, places, things, nature, animals, and fantasy. Right now I'm concentrating on texturing and lighting in Vue 4 Pro, and have been doing sprite images because they make me feel so lighthearted.
My sweetheart's name here is madasatadpole, and he's a very talented and creative artist. Please visit his gallery to see some stunning landscapes as well as some very silly humor! So thanks to Renderosity for not only being a source of information and fun all these years, but for bringing me the most precious gift of all. His dad also has a gallery here, madasadadpole, lol, please stop by and check out his lovely watercolors.
October, 2004
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Comments (22)
Sylvia
I really love it!! Maybe some motion blur on the horse will help with the movement effect You wish... but it's FANTASTIC!! Excellent
coa
Nice job, Christie! Maybe either the background with motion blur and front clear or vice versa! :^)
zxcvb
Wonderful image , i love the the DOF and blur in this , well done:-)
TheWingedOne
Great job on the DOF. I agree with Sylvia on the motion blur on the horse. To mee it still looks a little bit too static. Nice image though, well done, Christie! Any news from the fisherman yet? ;)
Ona
Cool dof effect! But anyway, I'll wait with new blur experiments for Vue 5 with the new HDRI features. ;-)
wabe
Hairy thing this. Is she on her way to get some salmon? I hope so. Well, i think the suggestion about some motion blur on the horse and the girl is correct. This would make it speed up. The other option is to do much more blur for for- and background. The sort of a quick moving camera that catches the quick moving object sharply, the static "rest" therefore is blurred. But great one nevertheless. A loud hello to Mr. Fisherman - so that some salmons can survive!
deevee
Very well done Christie! Both background and foregrond are blurred with the midground in sharp focus, that can work I guess as you have demonstrated here. I am impressed with the posing of the Lady on the horse, top notch!!!
loba73
Beautiful Scene!!! Love the Horse and colors =0)
nanotyrannus
I agree on the comment about adding a little motion blur to it to give it that urgency your looking for, except I would suggest the foreground and background for the motion blur rather than the figure, otherwise I think you might lose the focus of the image. Well Done work though, I really like it even without the motion blur, the depth of field is perfect!
IQ200
Beautiful pose. Excellent work!
lingrif
A lovely image. Nice work!!
FrenchKiss
No idea how to do motion blur because I would do it in Photoshop. But it makes sense to select the horse and rider and add the motion blur option to those. But then again, when you pan a camera to something moving, it's the background that blurs in the photo. So, I really don't know. Excellent image at any rate!
butterfly_fish
My guess (and it really is just a guess) would be to blur the surroundings if you want them to be galloping, or to just slightly blur the horse and rider if you want them going at a more moderate speed. That said, I think it's a beautiful image! Looks like you really got the Mil Horse to behave. :-)
BGHart
I think the movement comes out great. I like the posing and the blur effect. Lovely scene.
kenwas
Fine work and you already have plenty of suggestions for the motioneffect you are looking for.
nhirschberger
I have no experience with movement, sorry. Excellent blur effect and poses. A wonderful image !
pjero
It looks good enough to me !! If anything I would add a little more blur to background (maybe in Photoshop ??)
kitz
Excellent composition !
Belgareth
Now here is an excellent use of blur, DOF and focus. Excellent work!!! You have my vote
thomaskrahn
Looks great! The DOF is working very well :)
Lyne
STUNNING depth of field or whatever you call it! Fantastic!!
A_
really beautiful! :) i love the sense of freedom in this.. like there's nothing else those 2 need to to today, just going for a ride in the sun. :) wonderful colors and DOF.