Student Housing

[Neilg]

Tell them they have bad ideas, they hired you for a reason. They know how to make buildings, you know how to make good images.
In much better words, obviously.

[glorybound]

in fairness to the architect, the image is for the building department. I tend to work things to death; as if everything has to be beautiful. He would have been fine with a sketch-up model. For some reason, and I don't know if it's normal or not, but when I do work I work as if I am doing work for my portfolio. This one, although, will probably not make it to my portfolio.

[elivnA]

Bobby,

I've noticed on most of your images that you crop your buildings very very tightly, and it doesn't give a very good idea of the surroundings, and also gives a bit of tension to your compositions. I'd suggest maybe widening the shot a little to give the building some breathing space, like so (excuse the crappy image, gimp hates me):



Colours and mood are good, sky might be a bit blown out and the image overall slightly dark, though this gives a good opportunity to show off the interior lighting I'd say... Maybe add some street lighting?

Ofcourse, if the client asked for that specific framing, I havent said a thing, but I noticed it in your other images as well.

[glorybound]

Yes. I guess I do tend to crop a little close. I guess it's because, most of the time, I dont have any information on the environment. I'll try to widen the view on the next one. Thanks for the advise.

[windrockwater]

How did you do the grass? I like the blur. To each their own I guess. Depends on the intent of the rendering. I even like making my renders look watercolor-ey now. If the renders look to real, then people pick it apart!

[glorybound]

The grass was done using multiscatter. I liked the blur too, but I am seeing, most do not.

[flino2004]

I like elivnA commentary, but I would go closer with the camera and less grass and less sky

[3DMK]

I agree with flino2004
The aspect ratio of your image is possibly showing too much sky & grass/plants. A 16x9 aspect would give more focus to the building as currently the grass/plants & sky are stealing the show..lol

Hope this helps
Jamie

[elivnA]

Hahah, yeah I might have gone a bit overboard, but that crop was just so tight!

[glorybound]

here is an update. The building lacks anything architecturally pleasing so, maybe that is why I am finding this hard to make nice. I might need to brighten it up a tad, but I'll wait for feedback.

[ledisnomad]

Always nice stuff, Bobby. This one seems to be giving you trouble... I'm curious if you're going to make any money on this since you said the architect would be happy with just SketchUp. I really think it needs to be much brighter: bright lights in the windows, wall-washing lights, etc. Crank it up!

[glorybound]

this job is already wrapped up. I am just playing now.

Always nice stuff, Bobby. This one seems to be giving you trouble... I'm curious if you're going to make any money on this since you said the architect would be happy with just SketchUp. I really think it needs to be much brighter: bright lights in the windows, wall-washing lights, etc. Crank it up!

[glorybound]

Here is a little boost

[Crayox13]

now this is really cool...I like the stars...which would actually show up if you had a camera expensive enough and with long enough exposure

[glorybound]

Thanks, Crayox13.