Here are some HDR renderings of cloud photos mapped onto the environment of a silver ball in 3ds Max and Vray for this #lovetheclouds contest by @tobetada
The first sphere is reflecting a photo of the skyline of Chicago from Lake Michigan.
This is the photo I mapped to the lighting environment. This was taken from a Wendella boat tour that will tour you through the coast of Chicago and inside on the Chicago River.
This is a close-up of the rendering. As you can see I placed many chrome balls in the scene and they all reflect off each other creating an endless pattern of reflection.
This next cloud photo is of a sunrise early in the morning off my gallery. This one has a molten lava sort of glowing red hot glass look to it.
This is the photo that is reflecting in the chrome spheres.
And the close-up. It is quite the UFO invasion at dawn.
This is a test of a plain blue and white cloud. It creates a nice bold chrome reflection.
These are the plain clouds being reflected in the chrome ball. Nice and thick. The patch of blue at the top really adds a bold contrast the everything else.
In the close-up it looks more like water or glass than chrome.
Here is a overcast cloud pattern.
I got this cloud pattern on my way back from Wisconsin a couple weekends ago.
This cloud photo seems to camouflage the sphere the most out of all them.
Here's the basic setup I created in 3ds Max. Just a grid of spheres with the camera focused on one in the middle and the environment mapped to one of these cloud photos.
Hi there, @sketch.and.jam first of all thank you for the follow and am following back. This is really different never seen clouds displayed in the way it's like looking at the universe very nice the way you implemented this sphere great photos.
The endless reflections are interesting sort of like a multiverse.
That it is a very good find and good luck in the contest.
Vaya que hermosura de composición @sketch.and.jam
Gracias :-)
Whoa these are really interesting looking renderings you did here! I love them and I’m not sure which one I like more lol. It’s crazy what a good piece of software can do, I thought they were legitimate normal photos! Maybe because I’m on my phone but it looked real, not edited lol. Some nice skills there!
Yeah its a pretty basic setup in 3ds max and vray, you just set the environment to a spherical image environment then put something reflective in the scene.