Great render! well done! What kind of lighting did you use..? give us some clues! BTW xantor, photographically speaking... using a wide angle for portraits is one of the NEVER_EVER_do's, simply because it distorts the image and the perspective. A longer lens (as you said) flattens the features making it look a bit more appealing... well, anyway... rules are there to be broken... (but you gotta know them first!).