Contemplation by Rids
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I started off using global illumination but after 4% done it was still forecasting 78 hours so I changed to global ambience and used a radiance plugin in Photoshop CS to add atmosphere - total time for this was 1 hour 10 minutes at 1600x1200 (user settings). Rendered in Vue 5 esprit.
Thanks for looking in - comments are always welcome :-)
Comments (27)
Olmen
Great light. The image is a little lifeless though... Try adding some details to the beach (eg. small vegetation beneath the palm trees)
smasher
great work
FrenchKiss
Ugh 78 hours is a bit much. but this image looks really fantastic here in global ambiance. Lovely one!
bruno021
It does look very good, but the boat would've looked even bette with radiosity, probably 156 more hours!(lol) 78h is very long, when I use GI or GR, I generally set the quality boost from -1 to -0.5, and the advance effects boost to 50%. It then generally takes a night to render, depending of the materials used.
creed2003
Beautiful Scene!!! I've found that the counter on Vue isn't always correct.
Rids
Generally I use half of what the counter says as a guideline but 40 hours was still too long as I needed to get on with something else (lol). The boat and poser model were definitely clearer using GI (I did a small test render) but for the mood of the scene I decided that clarity in the foreground wasn't essential.
aaus10
excellent mood in this scene. i agree about the global illumination, too impractical. however you acomplished a great render and excellent clarity. my favorite part is the atmosphere. excellent image.
Darthmagus
Beautiful mood!
kasalin
Dreamful and exotic landscape - love the water, beach and everything !! Vote !!
smiles95
Lighting turned out very well. Everything is excellent.
Rob2753
Love the sand texture and the waves on the shoreline, excellent
mac8
beautiful beach scene, very well composed
sacada
Lovely image. Excellent light over the water.
dragonfly2000
Very well done. Lighting is excellent.
Collateral_Damage
Great result with that lighting, it has a nice soft glow to it. Well done to discover a quicker way to get nice lighting.
YohannR
Water looks very real... and the lighting makes a nice touch...!!!
deevee
Very impressive!
dlk30341
Well done! Ditto the bit on adding some grass around the palms. Lighting is fantastic.
Autumnal
:-))
sittingblue
a very pleasant scene.
choronr
I love the backlighting - both the boat, and the vegetation. The scene is gorgeous. Steve, you're mastering this program very quickly!
blaineak
Very nice.
BGHart
Excellent and very well balanced scene. :)
dburdick
Stunning beach work - I'll have to check out that radiance plugin.
Polax
Love the depth and sense of space in the compo.. (maybe a fringe of darker wet sand along the shoreline would look nice ? ) great work!
Jerusha
Beautifully serene and magical. I think your lighting techniques look wonderful. A "clearer foreground" in my opinion would have looked less realistic and subtracted from the overall ambience of the scene. What a great cut back on render time, too! Best of both worlds, here. There is hardly anything I can see to improve except perhaps the bottom of the palm trees in the sand. Perhaps some blurring, shadowing and painting of grasses in Photoshop would enhance realism and eliminate uniformity. Beautiful. Vote.
zxcvb
Beautiful image , love the lighting , very well done:-)