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A lovely looking image with a magnificent sky. The background hills and mountains look okay. The trees could use some work, the cropped tops look unnatural. Then there's the question of the black box over on the right foreground.
Thanks everyone. Eubeen underlined my problems with the picture exactly. I always have better results building skies than the landscapes underneath them. The trees are just many 'instances' of the same Xfrog fir tree, varied by scale and scattered by Terragen's populator.
Not entirely sure that these would be useable by you, however..
You are probably aware of renderosity.com ... and if you are not, or haven't tried there for some advice ... maybe?
There even seems to be some guidance on the notes of use/unzipping/which directories to place them in, et al ... in the linked discussion thread above.
That aside..
Very nice work, Russ.
As an interim stop-gap creative measure ... losing the forefront trees might work well (at least to my eyes).
More foreground, literally on the latter part of that word ... seems to fit the landscape. Given the body of water nearby.