Something for the Weekend - Part 239 - Misty Mountains.

[davescm]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who took part in our last 'Blast Off' challenge. 

This weekend, we leave industry behind and move to open spaces. 'These mist covered mountains...', sang Mark Knopfler in Brothers in Arms. Well we have our own mist covered mountains here which, I hope, are more peaceful than those in the song. Of course that choice is yours, what will you make with this scene?

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Have fun!

Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

Beyond beautiful Dave.  I feel like I could stare at it for ages.  That gap in the middle looks like it was made for this challenge, and is waiting to be filled with monsters with glowing red eyes, countless objects from previous challenges, butterflies, floods, space battles, windmills and on forever. 

[davescm]

Thank you Trevor. 🙂 I had time this week for a bit of 3D creation.

Dave

[jane-e]

This is stunning and I love it, Dave! You have an eye for beauty and I hope my upcoming composite is worthy of the magnificence of your gorgeous render! 

Jane

[Ged_Traynor]

Beautiful render Dave 👍 did you create the mist in Blender as well

[davescm]

Thanks Ged. yes, the mist and clouds are all created with volume shaders in Blender and rendered using the Cycles render engine. The light rays are also the effect of a single 'sun' light, with infinite distance, shining through such 'clouds'.

Dave

[floramc]

So fascinating!

[Trevor.Dennis]

[jane-e]

Very nicely done, Trevor! Can you share your steps?

Jane

[Trevor.Dennis]

Very nicely done, Trevor! Can you share your steps?

Jane

By @jane-e

It's all too easy now Jane.  The Bison are Gen Fill, and the Native Americans stock images.

The foreground grass, Luppins, the big rock on the right, and lower leaves on the tree were selected and copied to the top of the stack so I could tuck the introduced elements behind them.  The riders on the left and right of frame should really share the same height but the rider on the left is slightly higher.  I am claiming that he has a bigger horse, and that the foreground is also slightly higher.  If the bison were composited rather than generated, I'd have made them higher in the frame at the size they are.  The river has to be the lowest point in the frame, so I am telling myself that the perspective is not 'too' terrible. 😉 The mist meant that we are spared the trouble of adding shadows.

[Jacob Bugge]

Oh, I see, Trevor, I thought the walker was leaving the group to grab the supper; still trying to count the suns.

I find the high ground convincing.

[davescm]

I love that, Trevor. It reminds me of the films that were on TV on a Sunday afternoon as I grew up. 🙂

Dave

[Jacob Bugge]

Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still

[davescm]

May be a bit too subtle, Jacob?  I had difficulty finding the change even using the difference blend mode!

Dave

[Jacob Bugge]

It seems so, Dave, sorry.

I am still trying to work on the limits; and I believe the first was the worst,

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-54-lif...

[Leslie Moak Murray]

I took this shot of a friend of mine years ago, and now it's an Adobe stock image. The longhorns are too. Taken at a ranch near my house here in Texas.

[Jacob Bugge]

Those are long horns indeed, Leslie.

[davescm]

Impressive cattle Leslie and not surprising that both of those were accepted by stock. The cattle appear large here mind you. I should have put something in to reference the scale. That tree is 5.5m high and the distant stone circle a metre high, without such a reference it is hard to judge. Of course everything really is bigger in Texas, so maybe the cattle are that big! 🙂

Dave

[Jacob Bugge]

Yous know the tune

Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still

[Leslie Moak Murray]

I can't view your image!

[Jacob Bugge]

Leslie, what happens if you RightClick and open in a new Tab, or copy the link and apply it?

[Leslie Moak Murray]

No  link appears for me. Malwarebytes is blocking it. I get this popup every time I even come into this thread:

[Jacob Bugge]

Now that is really strange, Leslie.

I tried a DuckDuckGo search for Web site blocked due to port scan, and it came up with a few Malwarebytes forum threads, including this one which seemed to be (another) one about a recurring issue,

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/323986-web-site-blocked-due-to-port-scan/

I have just received a confirmation from our web host of my creating a ticket about it.

Hopefully my two images in this thread, and 1,320 other images scattered over these forums, will soon be free to see for everyone.

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Thanks, I should have thought of looking at the forum! -edit- I guess I have to wait till this bug is fixed. It doesn't even let me go to the url from a different tab. Overkill!

[War Unicorn]

For the record, I can see the image just fine.