[RonB]

Tea_Bag...Thank you, I appreciate it!

Nico...Thank you, I am playing with it but I am drawing the line on this image. SSS gave me fits and I never could hit it right. The first grapes were the result of my SSS fail.

[iker]

Tremendous render!

[philip99]

looks great, good work

[Lars Magnusson]

The updated one is great! The grapes look really tasty here

[RonB]

The final grapes...I promise...
Cheers, Ron

[zdeno]

i like it ! great job ! awesome materials

[Half Life]

I'm sold on everything but the leaf...

Best,
Jason.

[tom]

Ron, this is really beautiful! Great improvement in materials and the scene.
I wanted to see how would it look with some post process... So,

[djflod]

Wow that is simple stunning Ron !!!!

Tom Gould you mind to tell something about your postwork in detail Tom?

[RonB]

Thanks guys!!

Tom, Thanks for your kind words!...Your adjustment to the grapes makes them a bit too light on my monitor as I have a plate of the real things sitting here...mine are closer. The wood back and floor to me is also a but too yellow but the textures do pop better....I do like the screen...and the crisp brightness of the image over all. The colors could really be my monitor though. I need to understand calibration for the web in more detail as I spent many years doing print work. I have to play around with every image I post to get it as close as I can to the original before posting as the colors, saturation and brightness changes so much when saved for the web. But fun as always...

Cheers, Ron

PS...I did a little deconvolution on the image...dump your browser cache or reload the page and take another look...a bit crisper now.

[tom]

Here are two reference images but maybe your have different ones.
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/nature/ ... grapes.jpg
http://www.wine-tasting-reviews.com/ima ... grapes.jpg

[RonB]

Thanks Tom, those are really nice...especially the first which shows the yeast coat in great detail.
The ones I have are of a different variety but your colors do match these very well.
The yeast coat has me intrigued, to do it right may take a different approach than I am using now.
I have been trying with maps but I think a better solution might be actual geometry with a clipping map.
Maybe a translucent surface over a bright glossy one?

Cheers, Ron

[itsallgoode9]

Great render! I do have a question about how dense the grapes feel though. The density of them feel a bit more like blueberries rather than grapes though. It might be a different type of grapes that are more dense but looking at the image without a knowledge of grapes. They seem too dense to me.

Regardless, the overall look, feel and render quality is great! Like a still life of an oil painter. I love it!

[itsallgoode9]

Sorry for double posting but I forgot to ask about the wheat. I noticed nobody
Has asked about it so far. How did you make it? Are those little whisks modleled or alphas? I would assume alphas off the top of my head but they look a bit nicer than that. They have a really nice delicate feel to them