External renders

steelers05

When you look at the straight rendering output for some of these, Im not gonna lie, they just seem kind of ...ahhh. But when you see how you take the images and composite them into your scenes, they look really great and the renderings make more sense. I mean the buildings are fairly simple in design so I guess the straight outputed renderings really dont give you much room to impress, but you surely do impress with your final images. Keep up the good work.

broomstick

Yes, I still find PS is key in the reality of a render, especially if you want to keep rendering times low.

I really like your shots, you have a nice eye to depth of field... I will try to add out of focus grass in my next works

davidh

attached are some similar images but with different post processing.

14 overcast.jpg

15 overcast 2.jpg

16 storm.jpg

davidh

attached is the foreground image for the first of the overcast images above.(normally i use the clone brush in photoshop to copy to the rendered vray image)

rocky field 01.jpg

olishea

wow...that first image of this page looks real.

I honestly couldn't tell it was a render at first! nicely done.

I agree, if you want low render times....you gotta do a lot of PP like this. But the end result is astonishing so how you get there doesn't really matter

plot-paris

great work, David. you are truely a master of photoshop! the first image of your last post is absolutely convincing (the second one isn't ).

a slightly off topic question: how do you structure your reference image library? I am a very messy person and always had difficulties keeping things ordered... you could really help me there.

davidh

I have a considerable reference library(4.5GB!)and I have spent the last few years adding to it and revising the structure,moving images and creating new folders/directories.Attached is a screensnap showing the current setup.some of these folders have subfolders and I am sure I'll be adding new ones soon.

Reference libraries.jpg