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dwsel — 12-08-30 Soft morning
Published: 2012-08-31 13:22:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1437; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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My entry for 'Depth of Field: Lets Get Focused' contest: [link]Apps: Bryce + a little bit of GIMP
Resources:
- Dutch Iris from Xfrog: [link]
- orange boheh from Night Fate Stock: [link]
- grass no.3 from my personal lowres grass pack
- custom Brycean tree
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Just beautiful. Love this little waterdrop on the petal
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Thank you 
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Thanks! I also like it a lot - I think that just tiny steps add to realism, some postpro to add camera imperfections we all used too see on photos, etc.
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thank you for faving! Happy New Year
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I have played around with bryce for a fair while and this is super
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Yeah, Bryce is a nice tool to make abstracts, but since a year ago or sth. the landscaping art became one of my muses. I'm definitely thinking about making abstract artworks in the future, oh maybe 'making 3d fractals attempt no.3'?
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well if you like using bryce and you have a reasonable powerful pc you could try making 3d fractals in Incendia, converting them to .obj files in geometrica then rendering them in bryce ..like I have just started doing inspired by it works really nicely only I haven't tried bryce as the render engine I have been using C4D instead
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Indeed, that a nice gallery I didn't know before of. Thanks! (added to faves 
I have tried once an importing classic mandelbulb to Bryce using this technique: [link]
As long as I used classic lighting, reasonable resolutions it was coming out nicely, but when I've turned on TA, put in the scene 2 TA optimized lights, and made mandelbulb out of glass... the renderer crawled to dead, even with quite decimated object.
I gave up after several days of rendering with pauses, and haven't tried it again so far. Glass material on such a complex object with Brycean non-adaptive renderer on my computer is no-go
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Good use of DOF, the colour saturation for the scene is excellent, I don't see any noise from the DOF, is that down to scaling or softening from GIMP?
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The noise was terrible, especially on the trees. The image is rendered only with 16 samples/px. I used 3 blurred layers (blur, blur more, gaussian blur 4) and painted their transparency masks in places with noise, being careful not to destroy any sharp edges from original.
I started working very late on this image, and I wanted to finish before the deadline. The rendering took me sth like 25+ hours, which is quite long considering I had to sacrifice some qualities. For example I had to get rid of partial transparency (5-10%) of the flower (for grass it's still on and it has quite a nice effect on the image), self shadowing of the flower petals and grass clumps, and even excluded flower from the dome light (that's why it has so much contrast and I had to lighten shadows in post).
Saturation was tweaked in post. The original didn't have enough colourization I needed so instead of spending more time on tweaking light or just adding saturation I painted in soft light blending mode some pink, orange, mint green washes.
I uploaded the process/making of: [link]
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Thank you for the explanation, and the link, impressive work. I am a bit useless when it comes to paint packages, which is main reason why I try to do everything in Bryce.
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Thank you kindly
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Hey nice photo 
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thx, that was digital cam in the Brycelandia world, but shhh... don't tell anyone
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