Summer night

[fabiorossi]

It's holydays time and I spent some hours to test kerkythea echo Boost; scene totally modelled and texturized in Sketchup,lighting by the lanterns emitter material;I used a simple dual core with 2 giga ram for 5 hours(100 steps); post production by Smilla Enlarger for Denois.

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[tadema]

Great atmosphere, the water looks great.
John

[fabiorossi]

@tadema said:

Great atmosphere, the water looks great.
John

Thanks a lot!

[leedeetee]

Ooooo, this has made me really excited about my holiday in Spain next month. I hope our villa looks as pretty as yours.

[davidh]

Fabiorossi ,
I think the compostion looks perfect but the colours are a bit washed out.Below is a link to a piece of software that allows you to create very vibrant images:
http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html
The Trial version is free to download but with a small watermark at the bottom of the image.I often take my final renders thru this software and then overlay the result with the original image.you can then play around with the layer blending modes to get the image you want.It works especially well for nighttime shots.
The screensnap here shows the original image overlayed with the hdri image.a third layer was also created whereby I altered the threshold of the original image( see final image) gaussian blurred this layer.when this third layer is blended using "screen" you get a very fine halo effect around the lights.I hope you dont mind me using your image to explain the process but the composition is perfect.

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[fabiorossi]

@davidh said:

Fabiorossi ,
I think the compostion looks perfect but the colours are a bit washed out.Below is a link to a piece of software that allows you to create very vibrant images:
http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html
The Trial version is free to download but with a small watermark at the bottom of the image.I often take my final renders thru this software and then overlay the result with the original image.you can then play around with the layer blending modes to get the image you want.It works especially well for nighttime shots.
The screensnap here shows the original image overlayed with the hdri image.a third layer was also created whereby I altered the threshold of the original image( see final image) gaussian blurred this layer.when this third layer is blended using "screen" you get a very fine halo effect around the lights.I hope you dont mind me using your image to explain the process but the composition is perfect.

Wow! great resource!
However I've tried an up of this scene by Vray; lampashade material come from this tutorial :
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/08/tutorial-how-to-simulate-lampshade.html

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[fabiorossi]

Just using mediachance resource

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[fabiorossi]

an another up...

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