COUNTRY HOUSE

[julyyen]

Whooou!
Very inspiring, indeed!(the second image is a blast)
Please, tell us from where is that awesome nature hdri (maybe a link) because I'm looking for this kind of scene for a long time.

[davidh]

a lakeside version,playing with soft texture effect

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[davidh]

and a moonlit version of the same image

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[cadmunkey]

Personally I'd be worried about flooding on that site
Great render, you're making everyone look bad now...

[tadema]

That's class

[solo]

Hell yeah, that last one is brilliant. So is this all Photoshop?

[hellnbak]

Wow! You build it, I'll buy it.

[davidh]

This was the original raw render before photoshopping.
Pete,all entourage and sky and effects are photoshop.Often I would take an image through fotosketcher but in these images everything is done in photoshop.Its really all about layering and layering elements in order to build up a sense of depth.

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[davidh]

A second lakeside image.The building is the same raw render from the first image I uploaded in this set and the sky and trees are the same from the last lakeside image,with a few additional tweaks.The reflection was done by flipping a copy of the lake side and using motion blur to create the streaky reflection, and then darkening the bottom of the image.There are a few areas where elements seem to bleed into each other but I wanted quite a loose feel to this image so I wasn't that concerned

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[pbacot]

David,

All this belongs on "Most impressive RENDERED SU" if there were such a thread.

Getting into the mood of Winter are we? With the sun shining outside here, highs in the upper 70's, these are deliciously, and vicariously, chilly pictures. Just great work.

Peter

[davidh]

Peter
Its getting quite cold in this neck of the woods at the moment so heres a colder version of the last image with the lake frozen and a couple of small tweaks.

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[davidh]

and a warmer,soft evening version

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[mitcorb]

Hi, davidh:
These last views are excellent. You are a visual symphonic composer.

[davidh]

24 hours late with this one,maybe it needs some gravestones to add to the atmosphere.Similar to the other images,this is based from the same raw render previously uploaded.

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[Bryan K]

@pbacot said:

David,

All this belongs on "Most impressive RENDERED SU" if there were such a thread.

Yep. There is and yep, it does.

[srx]

How much time for cooking in PS?

[davidh]

Ive added the gravestones to the foreground.Normally the photoshop post processing would take anywhere from 20 mins to a few hours.These were about an hour each.

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[urgen]

...O-o-o nice! thanks!

[davidh]

And the final tweak to this image,some clouds across the moon and a spectral figure at bottom left.I think I'll leave this image as is now.

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[davidh]

lots of colour in this one

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