Flower through Waterdrop

swOOnk · Post by **swOOnk** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:14 am

Hi all,

First of all thx to Ono for the wonderful piece of work called Indigo!
I do not have time to do large projects, so I'm limited to smaller experiments. One of them turned out quite nice I think ....

I got the idea from Photographs off of www.photo.net ...

The materials are just basics without textures or maps, all diffuse except for the water of course.

No postpro, only resize in Gimp.

So here it is...

Post by **OnoSendai** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:20 am

Nice...
The pitch black background is a little odd, unless it's supposed to be shot in a studio. Perhaps u could use an .exr environment map?

swOOnk · Post by **swOOnk** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:29 am

ahhhh... but of course it is supposed to be shot in studio

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Actually i have shot flowers in bright daylight with a real camera. To get the right contrast on the flowers head you have to set the exposure time real short and so most probably the whole background will fade to black anyway.
But of course in this render there is nothing to be seen in the background ...

What I was after is the blurring of the flower in the background but the sharpness of it in the drop which turned out good ...

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:38 am

hmm..interesting.. there is something that bothers me a bit, but i cant put my finger on it.
Otherwize a good exception for architecture and cups.

Suvakas

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:42 am

The image is nice, but I don't like the drop. Maybe it's its form or the missing reflections from the background but it takes quite a time to find out it's supposed to be a water-drop...

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:03 am

cool.
if you ask me this is a perfect scene to try the cauchy_b-feature out.

0.003 is a realistic value for water but you may increase this value a bit to strengthen the effect.

swOOnk · Post by **swOOnk** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:07 am

Here's a quick try with an environment map lighting the scene..

The blueish color looks strange (lit from the sky), but overall more interesting I think...

@mrCarnivore: I don't like the drop either but I think it'll do for an experiment

@manitwo: I'll try if I find the time...

Post by **OnoSendai** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:11 am

New one is nice as well - I'd like to see a converged render of that.

swOOnk · Post by **swOOnk** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:29 am

Well, i tried another exr (which i converted from a jpg so it's not that great

) and added a little cauchy. I also added a (bad) texture for the wood.
IMHO it doesn't look bad but alot could be tweaked i guess, like a real exr to start with =). The flower should stand out more (contrast-wise) but I blame that on the bad exr

That is as far as i want to take it but maybe I'll have another go on another subject ....

Thx for the feedback!

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:27 am

looks great

try to add very weak yellowish SSS on the leaves of the flower

Flower through Waterdrop

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