exterior townhouses

[tom182]

Hi Folks,
Interested in getting some feedback on this- its just not doing it for me or maybe I'm looking at it too long, anyways would appreciate any cc you want to throw at it.


cheers,
Tom

[gilicom]

Very nice .
I would move the sun a bit to the right so you can get some contrast beween the front and side of the building + you'll get some shadows on the image.
btw is that dude putting his hand on her a...?

Gili

[sea2stars]

*grin* I believe he is. Where is that pic from?

[teabag]

looging good...only one thing...it seems to me that uve got the bump on the brick inverted.

[Morbid Angel]

I agree about the bump...love the hand on the bottom thing =="here you go hunny let me give you a push"

[dlparisi]

The inverted brick looks like it's only happening on the corner brick piers, maybe a normals problem.

[visualride]

Good overall image. I like your foreground foliage for depth, but it could use a little blur. The brick bump was the first thing that caught my eye too. Is that bench to scale? It looks big to me. The overall coloring seems a bit dull, but maybe just moving the light would add enough contrast. I would like to hear from the photoshop/compositor guru's here to know what they would do to pump up the life in this picture.

[tdarcy]

Lookin good Tom,
The brick looks a bit lifeless and some lead valleys would help the roof for a touch of detail......really like foreground planting, what did you use for plants ?

Trev.

[tom182]

yeah good points raised, its for a brochure hence a bit of 'selling the dream' yak, (nice pad, have fit wife/partner, likes blokes hand on her ass, etc etc) but seriously,
@ gilicom I have moved sun and getting better contrast- will upload tomorrow, looking better already.
@ visualride I did think the chair was scaled wrong - too high- width seems fine. I did do my usual ps stuff but I made it worse, it was so bad I did'nt show it, I was overdoing it trying to get the contrast into the pic, but should have that addressed tomorrow.
@ sea2stars image is from real world imagery, they are pretty good.
@Trev I agree it is lifeless , valleys-I meant to put them in alright - good reminder, realworld imagery for forground plants.
The Brick map was modifed in PS and I just bought it from Ambientlight.co.uk Brickwall collection, I just used the bump that is in that collection- dont think I even looked at it properly, wierd if its a problem .[/b]
ok should have something better tomorrow,

Thanks all,
Tom

[DaForce]

Looks pretty nice!!

To improve the contast, you could use my S-Curve in PS then lower the saturation a little. Seems to work rather well.

[gfree]

We have also used the hand on bottom image a few times, but after some critics from clients we moved his hand up to her back. (and made her lose about 15 pounds )

[percydaman]

i agree about the sun. its needs to be adjusted to give more contrast between lit areas and those in shadow.

[tom182]

Here are the updates,
@gfree: agreed, it could become an issue, so I followed suit.





Better?

thanks,
Tom

[mdi]

better

[ene.xis]

its better now, sitll i d tweak a bit more to make those highlited areas a bit more burned as expected with a sky like that on the back imho!

besides that just the dark windows and th 2d people that tick me alittle off!
good work nevertheless man!