Real life places that would make great models for terrain

[ub3r_n3rd]

No, I'd want actual lighting... but I'm weird that way.

Ahh, I was thinking of painting like this awesome barbarian.

[Kheprera]

Pondering possible filters to use on a spotlight. Might consult my old boss when I worked in photography. Pretty sure a painted screen or filter would work.

 

*summons Doug for his 2 pence*

[Doug Sundseth]

 

@ub3r Now, how to mimic the lighting in that top picture....

Trees in a fish tank. Fill with water. Add a quarter cup or so of milk. Shine light through it.

 

 

That would work, though I think I'd start with less milk, and possibly only with very fine sand (less mess).

 

If you don't want to work under water (and I definitely wouldn't, for one thing, the glass on the front of the tank is irritating to deal with), a smoke machine is probably your best bet. You would also need something to act as a gobo. For the purposes of a shot like this one, you could probably get away with making the gobo from cardboard.

 

Single light from high and a bit left, fill light from near the camera about two stops (maybe more) down to get detail in the shadows.

 

You might be able to do the trees and backdrop with flats, but that would be really tricky. (Backdrop easier than the foreground vegetation.)

[Kheprera]

Would rather try and do it with a diorama mini. I could see this as a perfect setting for a paladin or cleric looking up towards the light.

[vulture]

I always thought the forests of my hometown would make great minis scenery.

Edited February 13, 2016 by vulture

[canuckotter]

Would rather try and do it with a diorama mini. I could see this as a perfect setting for a paladin or cleric looking up towards the light.

Or conversely, a paladin or cleric walking out of the light... 

[lexomatic]

This site has tons of great examples of Dolmens from the Caucasus

 

[ub3r_n3rd]

Kilfane Glen & Waterfall, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

[ub3r_n3rd]

At Raven Rock State Park in North Carolina

 

 

Powdered sugar trees in Baltimore

Edited March 21, 2016 by ub3r_n3rd

[lexomatic]

http://www.swifty.com/attractions/post/62261/this-indonesian-volcano-just-erupted-electric-blue-lava?utm_content=inf_10_1209_2&utm_source=SoEd&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=SoEd-9&tse_id=INF_2d34ea7b5d144fdfb5dda12e8d3d3f1dugh sorry for that crazy link. I'm on my phone. But this is some cool blue lava

[ub3r_n3rd]

Greenwoods

 

[ub3r_n3rd]

[malefactus]

The answer to a crossword puzzle was the Salton Sea of California. I had never heard of it before so I looked it up...partially to see if I had got it right & mostly to see what it was. Well they had this photo of some abandoned, salt encrusted buildings in Bombay Beach that looked SO Post Apocalypse:

 

 

...cool in a creepy sort of way, eh?!

Edited April 26, 2016 by malefactus

[Doug Sundseth]

A couple that I've never visited but plan to, both in the deep wilds of New Mexico:

 

Ah-shi-sle-pah WSA (BLM page)

 

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (BLM page)

[Guildenstern]

went to our local Aviation Museum here in Warner Robins GA; they have a ton of awesome and cool planes! While I was visiting this go around I decided to take pictures of weathered surfaces, kind of an obsession of mine. Here are the better ones (took them on my phone sorry). Apologies not sure why it turned the pictures about either

 

 

Weathering on a wing tip

 

Weathering on the undercarriage of the opening for the landing gear

 

The actual landing gear

 

A beautiful rust pattern

 

 

Weathering on this hatch is quite extensive, It's on the "A" of the Airforce in the side of the plane. I tried to get a good picture of it, but it almost doesn't convey the texture adequately - it was quite thick and deep in layers.

 

This isn't weathering so much as simply the early morning dew here. I thought it was just a really cool look seeing how it all rolled down the cone like that to form

 

 

Dewlines tracing the weathering over time that's happened on this panel

 

 

And a mostly whole shot of one of my favorite planes they have on display, an SR71 blackbird in the Century of Flight hangar.