Three Story Apartment Building

[glorybound]

Here is an apartment building that I am working on. The trees are blocking the building, but the landscaping plan is accurate, and the client picked the view. I am generally happy. I am going to render it again, fixing a couple things, and without the trees that are blocking the building. Any other comments and suggestions are welcomed.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Looking good Bobby,
few points on my side:
- i would scatter more foliage of the types you have there...just to thicken it
- maybe little less saturation on the foliage and lighter sky

[glorybound]

yes, I agree with all

[prateekvishwa]

i think cloud are looking too loud & distracting.. also as Martin said sky & foliage r too saturated..

[stevesideas]

Looking good. Just wondering if there is too much tree in front of the main building..Does it block it too much ?

[bob-cat]

Great image, I wouldn't say the sky is too saturated, probably a little too busy with the clouds.

I often refer to archectural photographers website for a bit of a reality check, ie. with real world colours and lighting etc.

Our local architectural photographer legend (imo) is Scott Burrows: http://www.aperture.com.au/

Also I find if the building/shot is quite busy a clean sky works best and visa-versa.

[Morne]

very nice, just the sky looks a bit too blue in some areas

[pixela]

Hi,
Nice image - I agree about sky. I think the many forgeground trees are hiding the building.

[glorybound]

Yes. I am going to remove the foreground trees. The sky was something I grabbed, and dropped in, at the last second. It isn't a typical sky I use and I don't like it either. Does anybody have any good setup for multiscatter grass? I think multiscatter is good for natural environments, but not well kept lawns, at least I haven't accomplished it yet. I wish my Autograss worked!

[Lehm_2001]

Looks pretty good. The scale of the ripples in the water looks a bit large. Out of curiosity what method are you using to get the soft/bloom look?

[glorybound]

The water was a last minute deal and I didn't have much time to work on it. I use the NIX plug-in for Photoshop to get the soft focus effect.

[flino2004]

like everybody else, the saturation is too high, the sky IMO is out of scale as well and I would take/replace those red trees since the building is pretty much red...the trees on left side are off too, they should be smaller.

Fernando

[glorybound]

Here are some updates

[flino2004]

The color of the brick looks too different in each rendering that it looks like you have a complex of 4 building in there...about the water, it needs bump and the color has to be darker (dark green), I will put some wildgrass around the pond too.
there is a tree in view 4 is not casting shadow and another one is too close to the windows.

Fernando

[glorybound]

Good eye Fernando, thanks. I did notice all you mentioned, but I was already up for 2 night trying to get the job done. I have a question for you guys. Is there a mathematical equation that will change one RGB to another in Photoshop. It seems there would be, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out. If I have an RBG of 32, 200, 96, and I want it to be Red, how would I accurately cange it (other than replace color, which is the slider)?