Dew would be interesting. Think I am done playing with this one for awhile
though. Here is one last pic that I put together after letting in render for
24 hours. I copied the image to another layer and blurred it to get a glow
effect. Was going for damp but it kind of reminds me of a soap opera now.
Mike
"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> "Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> I tried an aoi pattern on the eyes, which works well for shading but
>> adding
>> a dark spot on the eye didn't look right. Also changed the flower
>> color...
>
> That looks really good. Of course, you can't have to many samples when it
> comes
> to focal blur, and the grass could be slightly higher-resolution. It
> would be
> interesting to see how it would work just a little more 'damp.' Dew,
> perhaps?
> More highlights? I love the mantis though, and the green is a better
> color than
> the last.
>
> If it helps, here's a vaguely similar image I did a while back. It
> started as a
> test for the bokeh effect. The key was to really boost the dynamic range,
> but
> this requires a *lot* of samples in order to spread a small highlight out
> into
> some aperture shape. (The heptagonal aperture also required some
> patching. I
> think MegaPOV has a square aperture.)
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.47c26b5e8e18150dae42298f0%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=302054
> &toff=500
>
> - Ricky
>
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