Lakewood Hills

[Morbid Angel]

Is the bg defocused a bit? screen left it seems. I think its throwing the scale of the cg. Otherwise looks good color/lighting wise!

[glorybound]

It was the highest resolution lake photo I could find.

[bennyboy]

Looks great!
I preferred your first version on 6/30, but this last one is nice too.
Personally, I kinda wished I didn't feel the need to color adjust everything towards gray...starts to loose its happy place.

[voltron7]

Latest one looks great. I agree about BG a tad blurry, but still looks okay.
What a strange hammock?! (Never had seen one like that, so far, but looks tree-friendly.)
your birch trees are nice, but if I were picking trees for close around my house, it would definitely not be birch. They are a constant mess year round, and if there is any type of icing, they can bend down to the ground.
Anyway, that's not really a rendering CC...

[Morbid Angel]

I think in terms of composition, I would play the fg trees darker, not so bright, so it does not take away from the focus of the house. Another thing to consider in photography you do get some color spill in the lens from brights, something you can play up also around the edge of the roof and the sky.

[glorybound]

I worked on the background a little... better?

[bennyboy]

Nice!
Do you use Fur for the grass?

[glorybound]

the grass is Autograss

[PGD]

Yeah the grass is very nice, much better than ForestPro which I'm currently using.

I think the sky is a little blown out tbh, try reducing the exposure a little to get more blue in. Also a slight fog may be nice before the background, should let the house stand out a touch more.