Stormy Light by Kathye
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Description
This has taken me far longer to work on than it probably deserved but I learned a great deal doing it. I started three weeks ago just messing about making a pattern for crazy paving from a tiled version of 'mudcracks'. After that I needed to make it into a path in a garden. Building the waterfall took me another week! My original plan for the garden had not included a vista to the sea and switching plans led to all sorts of bother from things like temporarily having a stream that looked like it was flowing uphill!
There's something wrong with the shadows. I messed for another three days with the lighting but just about everything I tried messed up the skymap effect so I am afraid I've left it with faulty shadows. Definitely got to go and study 'light' now though.
Things I would like to know -
Does this look over saturated with colour?
Too cluttered? If so how could I have made a sensible planted arrangement without it looking cluttered and crowded?
Credits:
Skymap was from the thread offered by Ysvry in the forum last week.
Trees I made in POV-Tree
Plants from Gilles Tran, Drew Costigan and Toucan.
Butterfly by Baldiman
Spider and web from some nameless donor at 3DCafe - water droplets added by me.
Texturing by me, mostly by tweaking original presets.
Touched up in Photoshop.
Thanks for visiting, and reading all this if you did ;) (just taken me four attempts to upload this too, perhaps it's ill fated.)
Comments (19)
xexon
I love storms. Its why I live on the coast of the Pacific NW. My only complaint would be the front stones on the walkway are un-naturally bright. Excellent overall.
Sophies
Beautiful work.The path and the waterfal are just awesome (it's so very hard to doo)Excellent!!
judee3d
Excellent excellent work! I love the path textures and the sky on the distant water is beautiful. Great job on the waterfall and stream too! In answer to your questions, Not too much color at all, the colors are perfect. However, I do think the front left beside the path is a bit overcharged. Instead of the eye following the path and stream and on out to sea, it gets pulled to the left by the greenery, especially the one stem in the front. One other thing, the rocky ledge at the side of the stream looks like water is flowing over it - not sure if this is your intention or just the color of the rock. Might be good to either make the rock greener, or lower it and bring the stream further in alongside the path. Well you did ask. :) Overall it's fantastic, I would love to be able to do half as well! Great accomplishment!
Rob2753
I think it's an excellent composition and the plants don't look too crowded at all, keep up the good work !! :)
lordstormdragon
Aye, an insnae and worthwhile scene! Fll of plants and life... Methinks some ambience changes in the materials might help smooth it out a bit, but it's still a good job!
Truley_Unruly
I wish I could even come close to what you've done. It's definately not an ill-fated image. It's beautiful and you can tell you've taken a great deal of time with it. Excellent image!
Kathye
Thanks for the helpful comments, I really appreciate the feedback. I can see where you're coming from with the ambience point LSD, it would address both Judee's and xexon's comments except all the ambience in all my pictures is set to 0. Something about them was definitely seeming to catch the light oddly in this one though, possibly attempting damp rock etc was causing too much reflection.
Trouble
It is really an excellent composition Kathye but you are correct, you need to work on the lighting/shadows, but hey, practice makes perfect. :)
ariannah
Kathy, I would agree about tweeking the light and shadows, but your overall composition is already there. This is turning out to be such a lovely scene and I'm very impressed at your texture work! :)
CraigInOmaha
Wow! So glad to see so many favorable comments for this wonderful scene. Your effort really paid off well. Cluttered? If so, I love it. Way too much worry over this shadow stuff. Doesn't bother me a bit. After all, it's a cloudy setting. (Aren't those heavy clouds I see out over the ocean?) Okay, so how can we worry about shadows which also would not occur in nature? I thought so. It's perfect, Kathy, and I'm glad I didn't miss it.
Bothellite
I don't find it over-crowded at all.. and it's a wonderful work. This has the look more of a tended landscape rather than just nature's will at work. I don't think that it's over saturated but I'm looking at is on a flat screen right now.
bkhook
I think you did a wonderful job here.. Just love your sky and water.. and.......everything else here.. Excellent job!
Snow_Angel
Fabulous image,mood and composition! The lighting is superb! V
Stoner
Good work. A little advice though. If you use photoshop you could blur the image just sligtly and add a little tint of noise. That is something I do alot to achieve a touch of realism.
RJC
Quite well done scene. Love the suns rays shining through the clouds. Excellent. Vote
Ilad
wonderful!*
Gaspar
Your attention to small details shows here, and it was well worth it, specially the stone path leading to the bridge.
cornelp
Excellent work, just stunning. The textures used the light work, the green areas are just fantastiq. Very owesome.
Burpee
Not crowded or cluttered, that's what the real world looks like. If it was too neat and tidy it would not look real or have any life in it. Excellent work!