Starry starry night with tilt up.
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cool render Roger. I like the blasting color.
since you're asking for ideas:
-blurry tree in foreground is a bit distracting, maybe even more than it would be in focus...
-same with blurry foreground grass - the pattern looks smudged next to the sharp tree trunk.- and the foreground curb looks a little unrealistic and overblown in contrast to the nicely balanced subject (the building).
-is the foreground water? if not, it's too reflective. either way it's a bit vague. and at a glance I feel a black hole at bottom left - it's sucking my eyes in! - I like what you did with the sky. but the bright orange is a bit too paradoxical in a semi-real world context. maybe keep the orange glow, temper the orange flash.
- and the foreground curb looks a little unrealistic and overblown in contrast to the nicely balanced subject (the building).
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the problem i have with this is that all the elements look too superimposd but not in a stylised good way
if this is a rendering straight from SU (the building i mean) increase the dark on the shadows, the contrast doesnt balance with the background
Change the tree in the foreground (it looks very 2d) with a photomontage tree, this will carry the continuity with the other planting.
add shadows from the new planting onto the building, increase the transparency to show the building to effect
use some lighting on the building layer, especially on the left side where is doesnt quite marry up
add a shadow for the main building onto the road
if u keep the reflection of the building consider warping/skewing it to match up with the direction of the road.
Maybe duplicate the vegetation near the building to the grass in the foreground.
sorry if any of it is over critical, i dont mean to be but if u are using photoshop and are wonding how to do an of the mentioned tasks id be happy to post up comments.
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Archi, I do have one error in the reflection that I missed. That reflection is the one from the left facing wall just to the right of the rotunda. The top end of the reflection needs to be clipped which I will do. Other than that I do not see a problem with the window reflections. Reflections should not follow the road, they should just be the same distance down from the ground as the ground is from the window. The direction of the road is not a factor in reflections. The ground planes is just one big mirror when wet. Any roads or paths delineated on the ground plane would have no effect on the reflections.
I am not sure I understand the reflection comment.
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ahhh ok its my misunderstanding, i thought the lightr was coming from the windows and so would fall on the same angle as the windows (which conveniently would fit in with the road.
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Great image Roger , The sky is amazing ,is that HDRI ?
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Roger, I'm only giving my opinion as a viewer of the image, not as a professional designer.
This image bothers me because of the blurriness. It makes my eyes want to strain to bring it all into focus and I wouldn't be able to look at it for long. I would also lose that tree in the front, it cuts the building into thirds and doesn't feel right alongside the other, more tropical trees. Maybe some lower plantings that fit in with the region would be nice.
What I do like are the colors and the point of view.
nomi
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Roger,
What program(s) did you use to create the rendering. Besides the blurry tree and grass in the foreground, to me the lighting on the building itself appears too brght, especially on the left side. All other elements indicate the scene is late sunset, with the light coming from behind the building and to the right. I would also get rid of the bush in front of the palm tree on the right - it is identical to the bush on the left, so it doesn't look realistic, and you have a clump of landscaping there already, so not sure you gain anything by adding it. This is my overly critical eye - ti's a beatiful image. I'm sure your client would love it the way it is.
Daniel
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Mateo, the sky is made up of four exposures. It is shot from my back yard in Arizona. I walked out my back door and looked up and said wow! I knew I would never get my professional cameras unpacked before the view was gone so I grabbed my consumer camera off the kitchen table and stepped out and took four shots. I wanted higher resolution than the camera would give me so I shot one frame to the left and one frame to the right and stitched them together. I also knew that shooting onto the sun would cause me to loose highlight detail so I did two more shots of the same areas at a lower exposure. I stitched those together as well. Then I layered the two stitched images over each other with the darker image on the bottom layer. Then in Photoshop, I erased through the upper image where ever it lacked highlight detail. Finally I merged the uper and lower images.
I used PhotoShop, SU and Kerkythea.
The blurred tree is the most frequent complaint I hear about the image. In fact, when I do night/evening photography I often get the same effect from the camera (perhaps not as strong). Even a slight breeze moves some fairly mighty trees over the period of a time exposure.The bottom part of the trunk is not effected, but the upper trunk and branches can become quite blurred I may try cutting the blur back just a touch.
The image is a little more contrasty than my original. The image I posted is one that I emailed the client and I find emails often dumb down the color so I pump the contrast on images sent by email.
The comment on the duplicate bushes is right on and I think I will get rid of the bush on the right. In fact, I think it is a great time to get rid of the bush on the right.
I am surprised that no one mentioned the duplicate palm trees. I guess I got away with that by flipping them horizontally.
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Signed sealed delivered and invoiced. Added some architectural detail and worked on the blur. Rather than remove the blur I superimposed a sharp tree over a blurred tree. As if I had blurred the tree during a long time exposure and the popped a flash to freeze some detail. So it has some sense of motion and still makes the people happy that thought there was too much blur.
Now I am off on a new set of residential projects to show how empty rooms mightlook furnished so buyers are tantalized by the spaces possibilities.
![Foreground trees with a "sharp on blur" technique.](/uploads/imported_attachments/7K5C_afshar_render_signed_sm.jpg "Foreground trees with a "sharp on blur" technique.")
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Thats it!!
Great image, bold colors and a true artists impression.
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Beautiful
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