Quote - I dont know how to translate this ... ' c'est en faisant des erreurs qu'on apprend "

One learns through one's mistakes.

I'm deliberately posting one such mistake for your critique. Please review: it's the culmination of a week's worth of reading threads on lighting. One such thread dead-ended back in 2003: the author proposed using a depth-mapped and raytraced light both placed in exactly the same place. Never posted a picture or anything, so I did exactly that, since the RT shadows were too harsh on Charlotte's face.

Seems to work, but then, I've been mistaken before (20 minutes ago, to be exact). Here's the link:
www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php

I've already re-done the pose: poor Charlotte looks like she's about to fall over. This render (to which I will provide a link on that above page) was done in Poser 8. Yes, Poser 8... I've decided to finally USE this brilliant piece of software I invested in. It is rendering much faster.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks