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I had a different scene planned but after a few days of test rendering I determined what I wanted was not going to happen. So I took these ornaments and put them in my beach house and did a sunset render.

The textures came out wrong (way too small), the lighting is bad (but sunset theme works), and the models were never finished because I spent too much time with test renders. At least it shows how DOF works.

All in all I think it looks good. (I'm almost never happy with my work) Thanks for looking.

Looks great Wedge!

like it

Were you designing some weapon when you remembered about Xmas ?

My problem with your image, I believe, is that you are not using physical sun & sky; I for one find image based lighting very dull in general, it often lack dynamics. Maybe that can be corrected with a lower gamma+higher gain for hdr compensated by a slightly higher prescale (this depends on your tonemapping technic).

Also the extreme closeup is a bit opressive imo.

Hey, thanks for the comments.

CTZn: It is only a sun, I have never used a background image in a scene. Usually do not use meshlights because with my AMD Barton (one of the latest in the AthlonXP series) they are very slow to render. So simple materials and sun allows me to make decent scenes without needing to render them for many days (off and on). I think my final image was done using linear tonemapping with a shutter speed. Reinhard was not that colorful (in my opinion) and camera tonemapping looked good until I saw it about 8 hours later it had burned out. (or turned very bright as if the shutter stayed open) Linear looked just right throughout the entire render. I enjoy using linear a lot now that we have a shutter speed setting. (usually I preferred reinhard) Thanks for your opinion.

I'm not sure if you saw my beach house, but I use that for my environment. You can probably find the beach house render in the forum still, someday soon maybe I will render it clean.

I remember that beach house well

I'm surprised you used the physical model actually. Not much to say then ...

I like the warm atmosphear!
really nice