... but then, "I'm a nasty woman", so I don't mind cheating.
This is originally a part of a little demo I did at a writers course I'm attending, but I thought maybe someone might get some inspiration here as well, so here goes:
The Snow Mountain Project.
First:
Snow mountains, rendered with the default renderer:
Okay, so we are suffering from climate change and a lot of pollution is falling down on the glaciers, but even so; that is some dirty snow mountains!
I don't want that. I want the Norwegian fairyland mountains, with the illusion of fresh, clean and transparent mountain air.
Let's try the other renderer, with enhanced external brightness:
Rendered with renderer-1.3.2, using the Enhance external brightness option :
Yes, that's better. At least my snowy mountains now looks more like the real thing.
But I miss the blue sky, and I think the image as a whole lacks dynamics. The shadows are too soft.
The overall feeling is that the image is a bit dull.
Maybe a combination will do the trick?
In the default rendering, it's just the mountains and the reflections in the water I'm not happy with, so I'll just mask them out, like this:
and then replace the mask with the enhanced rendering.
Ah, a lot better.
But still not quite what I want.
The "Enhance external brightness" option in Renderer-1.3.2 will not work with textured sky, but I used a textured blue sky for the default rendering, so in my first rendering the sky is an even blue, making it easy to mask out.
So I will replace the sky and add a photo filter (Warming filter 81) to make it more like summer.
Well... I'm pretty happy with the final result:
(The images are downsized from 2K)
Cec
