Shadow creek by bucyjoe
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
I don't ever use the sun and sky with iray and I don't think I will soon.
this render turned out griany so I tweaked the settings. The results were my computer crashed like four times. Back to scratch. The render turned out to dark on the figure becuase you can't add a light to sun and sky.
so here it is my quick picture that took all day!

Comments (22)
Beautiful scene and render!!!
I've never used sun/sky in Iray either, I typically slap in an HDR because of the clouds. For grain though, you need to crank up the samples and render times, then go find a book, like War and Peace to keep you busy till it's done.
You should try to use ghost lights. But most of the time i use dome and scene.
In spite of graininess, the lighting looks very realistic and it is a delightful scene.
Just looking at the shadows I wonder if she would be better lit standing a metre and a half to her left where the sun seems to hit, the leaves might also create a nice dappled effect — just a suggestion from a non-daz user ;)
Marvellous scene!
Amazing work, particularly love the expression and dreamy feel!
Beautiful dreamy scene, excellent work on everything my friend.
superb composition, we feel the danger of this swamp
Excellent !
I love the result; very realistic looking!
I like the backlit light and shadows look. I have this package as well, and I agree that it can have issues of graininess. My solution has been to use an hdri set to dome only and to adjust my render settings. I change my Min update samples to 5, Minimum samples to 10, Max samples to 10000, max time to 28800, rendering quality to 4, and my rendering converged ratio to 99%. I personally like the DTHDR-RuinsB-500.hdr because it is not too contrasty. You might give some of those a try and see if you like it better.
thanks
Cool
great image. Love the lighting. Sorry it gave you so much trouble.
the name says it all excellent
Hey man, I really love your work! All your creations are fantastic!!
It still turned out beautiful despite all the problems! I love the lighting here!
Beautiful
Would it be too obtuse of me to ask if you might have put a spotlight on the figure or would that have upset iray? Turned out quite beautifully no matter the secret ingredients! Life is always a learning process.
with the dome you can use spotlights with the sun you can't
Marvelous and very well realized scene !!!!!
Beautiful
thanks
outstanding mood and scenery .. worth every second it took to be finished, thanks for sharing !