Summer dusk NPR

davidh

Attached is an NPR of an old scheme I worked on previously.The building was originally rendered in Maxwell a long time ago.There are about 30 layers in photoshop with planting layered and colour tones overlayed,as usual.

The key to doing planting in post processing is to layer and layer and layer.You dont have to worry about keeping crisp edges,particularly in wild planting,as most planting encroaches over its neighbour.Just mix everything up!

I have also attached a cropped area of the image where I increased the red and blue values of the image.You can see that this gives a much warmer feeling.
Similarly if you add blotches of colour in overlay mode and blur the blotch considerably using gaussian blur you can accentuate some areas specifically.I did this in both images but more-so in the cropped image,particularly on the green areas.It really helps to tie the image together and also helps to create the golden colour of evening sun.

summer dusk small.jpg

summer dusk small crop.jpg

tadema

the second image looks like an old master!
John

solo

David, will you be going to base camp?

Reason I ask if you are I would definitely want to sit in on your demonstration of how you create these master pieces.

fymoro

So now we are allowed to share photography in the forum ?
To be serious, your images are perfection for me...

davidh

Solo,

Unfortunately not, as it would be quite expensive,more so in time than in money, to go to the States.
Is there any chance that a European/UK basecamp can be arranged(Looking at the Olympics its obvious that the brits can organise events extremly well!)

I was originally set up to do a Sketchup publication showing the workflow for my images,but work has been so intensive over the last few months,I haven't had the time.While I have continued to upload images,these have been quite quick in turn-around using some shorthand techniques that I have developed.I dont want to show something piece-meal, but rather a full start to end project including the lighting for the render,composition and colour toning and I don't want to upload that until I am totally happy.

The other thing I would say is that the more I do these type of post-processed images,the more I find myself veering to the vegetation and sky ,and the less emphasis the building has.I would be the first to say that a lot of my images are more matte painting than renders but when I did an image starting with a sky and no building,I had no focus point,no point around which I could start "planting", and found it hard to actually find a theme.I will still do realistic renders(with Thea render,an absolute delight) but these type of images are where I can explore,for want of a better word.

In fact my dream is to render out every building I have worked on and then assemble them in a HUGE panoramic scene,going thru field,mountains,rivers,carparks,roads and ending back up in fields again.

Gaieus

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@davidh said:

Is there any chance that a European/UK basecamp can be arranged...

We have been trying to convince the SU Gang for years but to no avail...[/off:2orgsoy9]

EarthMover

Gorgeous images. Love the overall color pallet.

hellnbak

Your work is amazing, some of the best I have seen here. I would pay real money to see a comprehensive tutorial on how you created these masterpieces.