hborre posted at 4:36 PM Mon, 24 April 2023 - #4463286

That looks much better.  There is still the issue with occlusion under her feet, I wonder if there is an ambient channel active on the ground.  The catchlights on the figure look right.  Keep in mind, a scene like this is difficult to light because you are expecting two very different light sources to be prominent at the same time.  With a camera view this close to the subject, I would expect the campfire to completely overwhelm the ambient moonlight.  But you are looking for a specific effect in your scene.

Thank you.

Yeah, shadowing looked much more natural when I was using the "real" lights.  There's an active ambient channel on the back of the set for the sky, but that's invisible.

True, the firelight ought to be drowning out the moonlight.  (For the same reason, we get a lot of flat Earthers demanding to know why the stars aren't visible in most space shots.  Not that they want to actually hear the answer; they just want to continue yelling that it's "proof" that space is fake.)

I like Trantuete's image titled "Rusty"; I'd like to be that good some day.