Roofterrace

[flipya]

I did this today for a friend. She wants a terrace and has the annual (I think) owners' meeting for her block next monday. Seeing as it's unpaid I didn't wallow over the details.
1h30m modelling + postpro (and 2h of rendering). Might be the quickest job I've done so far

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[fymoro]

Wow man, perfect photo matching to me...

[Fletch]

They will be upset thinking that she already built it w/out their permission!

[Dylan]

Looks fantastic.

How did you achieve the shadows on the wall from the bamboo plants? I am guessing the wall is part of the existing photograph.

[olishea]

if i didn't know they were solo plants i would have just assumed its a photograph! perfect!

yeah is the wall modeled? or did you render with a white wall and deleted?

[flipya]

Thanks for the comments guys

I really love photomatching my renders, such a satisfying job...

About the shadows; I did model the wall (single plane, no thickness) and projected the photo onto it. Originally just to get reflections right and avoid white edges after alphamasking (especially around the bamboo-leafs). So my plan was to use raw SU-output for the shadows and use those to (blurred-)mask a lightness adjustment layer onto the original photo. However, the SU shadows from the bamboo were such a pain to select in PS I decided to cut a corner and mask in a little of the rendered wall just for the shadows. Luckily I had subdivided the wall about 10 times so the phototexture came out with only a few bends in it. Even with selective blurring I think my planned method wouldn't have given me nearly as nice shadows as this did Only place where the phototexture was really screwed up was the doorframe but managed to fix that in liquify using pixelpush. I guess key to this approach is colormatching the rendered wall to the original (which took about 5 seconds), and a bit of luck

Hope that clears things up a little. If not, let me know

P.S. Just realised I did use SU-output shadow somewhere in the image, the shadow from the left part of the railing and the planter to the left were SU-ouput. Blurred and used as a mask on an adjustment-layer.

[Boofredlay]

That is a great photo. Now where is the rendering