> I actually liked the first version of your image best. It has a
> wonderful surreal feel about it. It had a lot of obvious things "wrong"
> with if from a photorealism perspective (textures, shadows), but a lot
> of the more subtle things--like the light, and the clouds--were and are
> perfect.

Thanks, I'll get to work trying to return that surreal aspect to it.  I'm a
sucker for photorealism, I normally sway from abstract art.  But now that
you mention it, it was very beautiful.  I'll try to return it's splendor.
Maybe next time I'll save backups as I pass each stage.

> BTW, how did you get the shadows on the hills in the first version? It
> looks like either an AOI pattern, or else you maybe have the clouds
> casting shadows. Either way, its beautiful.

The shadows are all cast by the clouds actually.  I probably need to find
another way to do the clouds... 5.75 hours on one tiny render.  It's not
even that good... oh well.  We'll see what happens when I add some fog or
mist.

> Back to the most recent version :-) the rock looks weird blurred in the
> foreground. It's blurred enough that it's hard to tell what it is,
> especially since there's nothing else like in in the image. Adding some
> more rocks like it elsewhere in the image might help.

Ah, I see what you mean.  I wouldn't have noticed that... probably because I
made the rock.  I've added some more... at various focal points, so some
will be blurry and some crisp.

> I would really like to see some higher resolution renders of the image.
> It looks great, and I'd like to see more of it. :-)

This will be a while.  As soon as I get my desktop back, I'll start
rendering larger images instead.  But until then... it's four hour waits at
this size to see what I need to change.


Thanks!  I'll try to keep an artistic mind from now on... I think I like the
surreal images as well as photorealistic... now to decide what images suit
what.

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