Crystal Peak

[glorybound]

Here is what I have so far. I am waiting on materials, and the picked the views, but I thought I would share.

[Morne]

Looks nice so far. I would just show less road and more sky
That fountain looks much bigger now that I see it in context
Have you decided yet how you will approach it?

[Pixelcon]

First one is a bit long in the focal length. Maybe pull it back and move to the left so the two structures are separated. You might lose a bit of the title on the wall but you could FFD the whole wall and fudge it a bit to get the best of both worlds. It does follow the rule of thirds ok but it needs more sky and less foreground.

Sencond image needs way more sky. there's just way too much foreground no matter how good you can make the road and grass look. Also the composition leads the eye straight into the center of the image at that pillar. Maybe pull back a little, look a little more to the left as to not crop the left structure, get the center focus away from the walls and pillar and let us see the statue unobstructed. There's a good opportunity to make that the center of focus with a bit more work on the composition. Try to get the gate out of the way of the statue.

[glorybound]

He was adamant that I used his Revit model cameras, but I agree, it needs to be worked. To tell you the truth, I was happy that the waterfall is hidden; this way I don't have to stress over it. I think I'll try PF stuff for it.

[Pixelcon]

I think you could do it entirely with photoshop and a fraction of the time it would take to do it in PF.

Re-work the cameras, send them to him and explain to him why you selected different camera angles compared to his (you're the professional here, remember?) . He may still decide that his angles are the ones he wants but he might not realize how much better they could be.

[glorybound]

some updates. I just sent them off to the owner.

[glorybound]

updated

[alexyork]

Why not eye-height? Feels like you've just passed out and looking back up to the entrance for help. Tough situation if the client won't bend on the viewpoints. Would go eye-level and pull back a bit so you can take in a little extra to the sides.

[glorybound]

the last two I posed are eye level.. a little dark, but I have fixed that.

[glorybound]

moving forward

[glorybound]

here is a close-up of the water feature

[glorybound]

I'll have to say, this was client driven. At the end of the day, I think they wanted two 1 point perspectives. I had long render times (4 hrs per view at 3200 X 1800) and it looked very CG, but I think I overcame that in post. Anyway... any comments would be appreciated.

[glorybound]

PhotoChopped!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

I really like trees and all green stuff. Very lovely colors!

[glorybound]

the client saw the render and changed colors minutes before a meeting he had. So, I quickly did some color tweaks in PS, and somethings got a little red in the close up view.