advice please

[Ginna Podge]

Hello,
I could use some advice on how to improve on these images. I have become comfortable creating in Max & Sketchup now need to focus on composition. Colors, contrast and all that makes a scene more appealing. All advice appreciated.

[Brian Woodward]

Hi Gina

I like the image a lot. It feels warm and balanced to me. It looks as though you have made good use of Entourage Arts vegetation. I'm not sure but have you used some form of fading on the trees to mix with white in the back ground? Or have you just achieved this by not restoring so much over the background trees?

One thing I would do I think is to tone down the reflections a little more, but its only a minor thing

[Ginna Podge]

Thank you for your feedback. I agree that I get a bit carried away with the reflectons, will tone it down next time. The trees in the back ground are faded a bit due to a linear fade that I used. I was trying to have items in the foreground stronger and fade as you look deeper into the scene.

[Brian Woodward]

Ginna

were you fading to less opaque, or fading by adding in some white?

I'm told you should add blue as you go further back to achieve atmospheric perspective.

[Ginna Podge]

I was fading to white. But next time I will try blue. Thanks for the advice!

[Susan Sorger]

While it is true that you should fade to blue, using the fade to blue in the fade settings is not necessarily going to get the effect that you want.

There are actually 2 things happening as you fade in in atmospheric perspective: 1. Your colour loses it's colour quality and mixes more and more with the atmosphere sky colour to become more and more tinged with blue. 2. The colour becomes less intense.
Fading from an intense brick colour toward a semi-opaque blue colour will not accomplish both. You will only get more intensley blue.

Just be very carefull with your fade settings, to ensure that your colour does not become increasingly intense as you fade to the blue.

[pinoy]

miss try to darken the glass window un the first image ang put reflection on it, then add shadows on building ground area. u have to fucos your subject which is the building not those trees, try to make it more transparent. here some techniques in presenting such perspective. (light,medium,dark) ( sky, subject, ground) light-sky,subject-medium,ground-dark.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I think it looks great! One thing I noticed simply because of my background (landscape architecture) sometimes trees appear awkward when they go straight into the ground. Maybe hide them with some grasses or a small shrub. I dont want to infringe upon design, but just a thought....

maybe something to this effect......

[Ginna Podge]

Thanks Andrew that looks much better!
I will use that approach next time.

[zanzibarbob]

Gina, Nice work but compositionally the two trees in the foreground are more important than your building. Figure 20% foreground, 60% object, and 20% background. Also, since it is not an edge to edge or vignetting I would create more Zig-Zag. If you surround your image you have an oval. Break the oval with white spaces penetrating it. Creates interest. More contrast at what is most important.

[Noklu]

Ginna,

Nice images. I think the shadow of the closest tree (on the building rendering) is a little too dark, a bit too dominate in the foreground. I really like the birds-eye view. This is exactly what I am trying to do with Piranesi.