Hello everyone,
So… pine cones.
Why?
It has been a while that I’m working on capturing nature around me. Easier than it sounds.
After raiding the local arboretum, I had myself a few pine cone specimen, cool.
After all, I have found a cheap-ish setup to capture small objects with high precision
Trying Polycam instead of Meshroom, and I’m super impressed. It cuts down hours of work and it produces the best reconstructions I have seen.
Still nothing to show for it… I’m looking at the great compositions of David Padilla or Kasper Steernberg and I sort of want to do the same. So I look up some nice compositions with pine cones, and it’s always the same story, pine cones with snow, jingle bells and all this.
Nope.
I give up. It’s late already. You know what, let’s throw them in a bowl, that will do!
(better resolution on Instagram)
Meh… OK, last resort. Let’s ask Wombo what he thinks a nice pine cone composition looks like.
Damn, that Wombo is definitely worryingly good. Allright, we got a basis here. Let’s use the AI to our advantage rather than the inverse while it is still possible, let’s watch a couple of stuff on still life on youTube, and we should be good to go.
These are all assets I scanned or made myself, I’m happy - takes a loooong time… Not even a little CC0 thing in there.
The raw render on transparent background
Using the set of backgrounds for portrait photography I made based on real life examples, the post processing is done in GIMP and Topaz Studio, we have the final image on top.
The image before Topaz Studio:
And for the ones noticing the details, the cedrus branch is also sort of cool, I plan to use them with mtree. Tomorrow.
