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A rework of my 'Contemplation' image. After seeing the original side-by-side with *other images I realized that it was very dark, so I brightened it up …

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A rework of my 'Contemplation' image. After seeing the original side-by-side with *other images I realized that it was very dark, so I brightened it up by increasing the IBL and sun intensities. It then looked a bit too bright and washed out, so I added a bit of colour to both Dawns' skin and adjusted the sand colour. I also modified big Dawn's hair colour/bump, reduced the sun shadow strength, plugged the sand texture's noise node into its reflection strength, pulled the camera back and adjusted the framing to get big Dawn and her reflection into the image.

(The second image uses the original camera setup)

Still not right though - big Dawn's hair and bikini seem a bit too dark now and I seem to have lost contrast on big Dawn's upper body and face... among other things.
Maybe some depth-of field too? Not sure whether that would handle the reflections correctly - my guess is that it wouldn't (I'm using Poser 9).

Also thinking of doing an alternative version of this without small Dawn, but making the reflection be the 'straight-out-of-the-box' Dawn.

(I'm still waiting for the version 2a render to complete - same as this but using the original camera setup)

*Redanta's 'Mountain Air' over at DA inspired me - I tried to get Dawn's skin tone to match the elf. « Less