Post precipitation evaporation
Post in photoshop to pop the colors and soften the tree texture.
Raw render with Cinema 4D and Arnold render.
Arnold atmosphere and spotlight gobo on a 5000x5000 landscape sans trees and back plate.
Raised the Forester tree height turpidity scale to get a more varied topography
Single Spotlight with GOBO on landscape with Forester tree scatter. 15k trees.
Feel like I was getting lazy using HDRIs for lighting and wanted to take more control of where light is landing, (and where it's not).
Experiment mixing Arnold Environment atmosphere with Forester tree scatter and background image. Learning about Arnold spot light filter GOBOs with noise. Getting scale right for distance is tricky. Background image is a drone shot from a rafting trip in N. Georgia mountains.
