I generally use a lot of stage lighting tricks: back light, side light left, side light right, head spot, with colour to play off the textures in the image. It serves me pretty well, but I have a project right now where IBL might help. I did some tests this afternoon using Catherine's tutorial, and the results were, well, less than wonderful. But it got me closer than my fumbling on my own, so there may be hope yet. :-)

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