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Offline BMathis

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Little Help
« on: June 24, 2009, 02:05:34 AM »
Can you give some pointers on what would make this better?  Any help would be great.  :salute

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Offline Fulmar

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2009, 08:44:44 AM »
Couple things I noticed.
1) The shot is taken from inside the cockpit.  There should be some reflections of the glass/whatever cool material the dome is made out of.  Otherwise, it just looks like its flying around with the windows down.  See below pic:


2) The terrain confuses me.  It looks like it drops off into no where into clouds.  I don't know if you edited the below terrain or if its 100% real.  It just looks odd.
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Re: Little Help
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2009, 11:00:39 AM »
Ah yes, cool point. I'll see if I can recreate the Glass reflections...  Thanks Fulmar!  :salute

The BG is an original picture... It's a hilltop and it drops off, but clouds obscure the valley.
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Offline Stampf

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2009, 11:44:30 AM »
Wow, that's sharp!
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Offline 1pLUs44

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2009, 11:56:08 AM »
Ground should probably be kind of blurred towards the bottom left side?
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Offline BMathis

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 03:25:14 PM »
Took the advice and made a little progress.  I'm not a photoshop mastermind by any length. I searched for a tutorial for this kind of glare effect, but didn't find any worthy or similar to what I wanted... Then it was trial and error for a while (more the latter than anything).

Here's a updated version. Thanks for the help gents, let me know if better or not.  :salute



I'm gonna now mess with the blurring on that bottom corner 1plus...  ;)
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Offline Golfer

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2009, 05:46:40 PM »
I can't put my finger on how to critique it but the exhaust blur looks overdone.
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Offline Fulmar

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2009, 07:16:24 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on June 24, 2009, 05:46:40 PM
I can't put my finger on how to critique it but the exhaust blur looks overdone.
I don't think so, check this or any other GIS.
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Re: Little Help
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2009, 08:01:43 PM »
I mean the Blurring is too fine.  A coarser, thicker appearing blur would look more realistic.  Again I can't put my finger on how to explain it but the image blur is just that where engine exhaust doesn't distort things quite as even.
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Offline BMathis

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2009, 08:58:38 PM »
I see what you mean. Kinda looks like water vinegar mix - it's not evenly distributed. Mines too uniform I spose. I'm not exactly sure how to manipulate that. I still am messing with it, and I'll see what PS can do.  Thanks George.
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Offline jerkins

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Re: Little Help
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2009, 12:11:01 PM »
Too me that ground looks too sharp, if the planes are in focus, the ground should be slightly off.  Correct?  It just seams a bit sharp. 

Also this makes me think of the speed of the planes, wouldnt that make the ground less sharp.

Just a thought
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