Posted on September 7, 2009

• I’ve added dual and triple screen versions of my new “Fluorescence (2009)” render. I’ve added some new color combinations to the shrooms of the side.

  Regarding replacing the blue version in my gallery: I would have kept the blue (2009) version if it had been rated higher than the blue version from 2000. It was not. I am happy to let the 2000 version represent the blue strain of these mushrooms.

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Posted on September 5, 2009

• The reaction to my new multi-hued version of “Fluorescence (2009)” has been so positive that I have decided it will replace the blue version in the gallery (it will remain available in the Pickle Jar).
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Posted on September 4, 2009

• Quite a number of people have been asking about the version of Fluorescence I used for my “dbnewimages” twitter account. That one has some extra colors that I added in Photoshop. I didn’t want to put that in the Pickle Jar because anyone could have made it really. I played around in Lightwave and created a version with different colors that could only be rendered.

  It’s in the Pickle Jar for now, but I kind of like it (almost like it better than the blue version) and wonder if it should perhaps be in the gallery.

  What do you guys think?

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Posted on September 2, 2009

• I’ve posted the dual and triple screen versions of “Afterglow (2009)” this evening. Rather than leave the trees where they were in the single-screen version I have moved them out to the edges of the frame so the composition is mostly the same (but with more sky showing). Hope you like it! P>
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• The multiscreen of “Afterglow” should be up later today (fingers crossed). In the meantime I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of items I have posted on the DB Facebook page. The first is an email I received from a soldier stationed in Iraq that touched me greatly. The second is a write up of our recent visit with Rackspace (with some photos and a video of me giving a short speech and, um, dancing).

  It’s pretty easy to post those sorts of things on the Facebook page (usually while I am waiting for a test render to complete), but I wonder how many of you actually see those items or if I should take the time to post them here as well for those of you who do not wish to join Facebook.

  As always, you can subscribe to this feed or follow “dbnewimages” on Twitter if all you want are notices when new graphics are posted.

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Posted on August 29, 2009

• I’ve posted a revised version of “Afterglow” this evening. I decided to remove the flying pelicans (they didn’t scale down well) and I’ve decreased the star density somewhat. I’ve also removed the moss from the beach rocks (but the rocks themselves are staying). The moss was a relic from when the scene was set in the northern latitudes rather than the tropics.

  The first version will remain available in the Pickle Jar, along with an early version with a completely different sky. I was actually trying to emulate the sky from the current (August) picture on my Sierra Club Calendar, but at the last minute I changed the sky to the colors you see now.

  I’ve also tweaked the watermark a bit more. It shouldn’t cut cut off by any more taskbars, but feel free to post in the comment thread if it is still looking funky on your screen. I took the advice of one Facebook user (Graham Robinson) and set the transparency to 40% so it should be a little less in-your-face now. The transparency will be more obvious on the lighter images of course.

  Onto the multi-screen versions now…

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