If I said "hot", would it be too simple ? So...gred...er...great image

Thank you Gaius!!!

fantastic render

Thank you, much appreciated!!

Most excellent!

Thank you so much! I saw you mentioned you are in a red phase, as you can see so am I hahaha!

excellent capture!

Thank you very much Steve!

Impressive magic. Brilliant awesome render.

Thank you so much!!!

Oooh, the colored light looks fabulous here! I've never tried that with a portrait, but it works so well with the character, her pose, and of course the butterfly. Stunning!

Thank you so much Amy! I have experimented with colored rims in RL and I love using them in 3D too. Sadly there seems to be a bug in the Level Up lights as of the beginning of November, the colored rims don't work anymore, they come out white. That was when I first noticed it but I thought maybe I had indadvertedly changed the settings, and then my muse went on strike until February, so i only just recently informed A-Ohki of this and she is looking into it. This is actually a Poser scene that I did in October and all I did was substitute the character and change the light color, for some odd reason if you open an old scene from when they worked they still do. Luckily I don't delete old scene files.

Fantastic image!!! 😃😃😃👍👍👍

Thank you so much!!

wonderful lighting and shadows!

Thank you so much!!

The red lighting adds such a dramatic effect to this beautiful render! Awesome work my friend! :-)

Thank you, I really appreciate it!!

Beautiful! I love the mirror effect of the butterfly in her hand vs. the tattoo on her back. :) Also, great hair choice. Well done, my friend!

Thank you Lizzie, I am so glad you like it! I love her tattoo and my first thought when I saw it was to add a butterfly and/or flower to the scene. Tried several hairstyles too but I love how this looks on her. She's a beautiful character, thank you for creating her!

Fantastic! Sometimes we'll find a better expression than we expected.

Thank you elleque, that is so true!!!

The use of the very bright red rim lighting from two directions as the primary light source is bold and you don't lose the tattoo completely. The impact by such strong emphasis on outline and contrasting light and shadow isn't something you see here often (and even more rarely so successfully realized). Very well done. In viewing at full resolution the hair is breathtakingly real in that light.

This must have taken some time to render so cleanly. Thank you for sharing!

Molly

Thank you so much Mollz!! I love experimenting with lighting in photography and I love shadows and contrasts. I love taking photos by windows, in pubs or by street lamps, even by candlelight, and it's also one of the reasons I love taking photos during concerts. These last few portraits are all inspired by photos I have taken over the past few years. It's a bit frustrating at times because I find it harder to achieve the same results that I do in photography but that's also part of the fun.

As for the render times, it didn't really take that long at all. I forgot to check the time and didn't realise I could check the Poser log until a few days after, but I believe it took roughly 1 and a half hours. I usually just leave the default Superfly settings unless I'm using DOF or certain lighting and then at the most I will increase the pixel samples a bit. But I confess that I am still very inexperienced when if comes to these things, and to be honest I have always been satisfied with the quality of the images. So far the images that have taken the longest to render are the two with the bunnies and the little girl, I think due to the DOF and the gingko tree. They took about 3 hours each to render.

Dramatic and lovely. The color of light gives it a whole new level.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate the feedback!

WOW! Simply fanta stick! I wish I had a fraction of that talent. Your images always rock!!

Oh you have much, much more than a fraction TKidd! Thank you so much for stopping by and for the lovely words, i really appreciate it!

Outstanding!

Thank you so much!!!

Your new image, as well as all the others, are all very beautiful. Unfortunately, for health reasons I am not able to leave a comment on each one and hope for your understanding.

Thank you so much Ute, I am sorry to hear about your health issues and I hope you are doing better very soon! Do not worry at all about the comments, I appreciate people looking just as much and I don't expect comments on every image. Take care my friend!!

Beautiful image!!!