Angel Rays, an afternoon in the sun

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Hi

I recently completed this render. It is based on a photo I took a couple of weeks ago, a friday afternoon in the sun at the café.
This inspired me to publish a topic on Blender Artist Forum (https://blenderartists.org/t/they-should-be-called-angel-rays-things-that-will-never-change-thoughts-feelings-about-caustics/1486501), about the fact that the word “Caustics” in artistic situations should be changed, and I brought forward the term “Angel Rays” as a parallel to “God Rays”.

I also took the photo to create the render in Luxcore.

Here is the freshly made render (Modeled in Blender 3.6, Rendered in Luxcore 2.6)

ANGEL-RAYS-An-afternoon-in-the-sun-Damien-Rohrbach-Blender-Luxcore
ANGEL-RAYS-An-afternoon-in-the-sun-Damien-Rohrbach-Blender-Luxcore1106×1507 2.24 MB

And here is the original photography

An-afternoon-in-the-sun-Damien-Rohrbach-Photoref
An-afternoon-in-the-sun-Damien-Rohrbach-Photoref1618×3590 1.65 MB

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ANGEL-RAYS-TEST-RENDERS-ROHRBACH
ANGEL-RAYS-TEST-RENDERS-ROHRBACH3508×3618 1.56 MB

Here is a mosaic of test renders, showing parts of the process to create the render.

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It came out really well, thank for posting, the the cloudy rays are excellent.
I do miss the streaky lines from the original photograph but that is nitpicking. The result is very convincing. :clap:

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Thanks. I like to mood of the result. About the technical side I will keep posting about it and the shortcomings.

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