Real or Rendered?

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Ryan

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Originally posted by: jtvang125
If it really is an actual picture, it was taken in a low light situation where a longer exposure would be needed. This may have caused the small ripples to smooth out such as using a long exposure for a waterfall. The water becomes blurred.

winnAr!
 

Crescent13

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Rendered. The reflection in the water is just blurred, not really refracted and reflected.
 

HN

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: jtvang125
If it really is an actual picture, it was taken in a low light situation where a longer exposure would be needed. This may have caused the small ripples to smooth out such as using a long exposure for a waterfall. The water becomes blurred.

winnAr!
no. because as mentioned earlier, if the exposure was held for that long, then the clouds, too should have the blurred effect. however, in the picture, they do not; they have defined lines.
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: HN
Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: jtvang125
If it really is an actual picture, it was taken in a low light situation where a longer exposure would be needed. This may have caused the small ripples to smooth out such as using a long exposure for a waterfall. The water becomes blurred.

winnAr!
no. because as mentioned earlier, if the exposure was held for that long, then the clouds, too should have the blurred effect. however, in the picture, they do not; they have defined lines.

I wasn't under the impression that clouds moved that fast to make the image blurry.
 

jtvang125

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Just as I have suspected. In the bigger picture, you can clearly see that along the edges of the rock shadows on the surface of the water is slightly blurred. This blurred created the no ripple effect by using a long exposure time.
 

yhelothar

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haha everyone just got 0wn3d hardcore.. well except me, and the small handful of people that said real.