Kate, that looks very nice! We love this work. Chris / Irene

Glad you like it :) I thought we needed a few more romantic images around here. Kate

This is lovely, Kate. Really nice job with the posing-and like the bit of light on her face. Diane B

Nice image Kate long live romance. glad to see you got the gazebo d/loaded ok and put it to excellent use. Chris-S

I love the lighs, mainly the way the light in her face highlights her expression and the overall shadows of the scene. Very romantic ambient, like a perfect date. Maybe the composition of the scene is a bit spread apart, another camera angle may give more unity to the pic.

Kate, I have to admitt, your post has made me decide to download Vue3... very nice work!! Thank you!! Jack

Diane - thanks! The bit of light on her face is the actual "moonlight" in the scene. Had to keep moving the moon to get it just right giggle Chris S. - Oh yes, I love your gazebo. The lattice work is awesome and the whole thing is just perfect. I'm sure I'll be using it in a few more scenes as well. Rorschach - Thanks for the applause on the lighting. I'm not sure what you mean by "spread apart," though. Could you explain it a little so I can see what you're looking at? If you mean that the dancing couple should be more centered in front of the gazebo, well, there's a reason for that. I'm lazy. Yup. That stone wall/fence in the background is actually 4 different sections and if I changed the camera angle, I would have to add MORE fence sections and I just didn't feel like it grin, wink If you're meaning something else, then please, let's discuss it - I love learning new ways of viewing things and composition is possibly the most important aspect of a piece. Jack - What can I say? Bongo was right. ducking Actually, smallspace posted a great underwater scene "Danger from behind" some months back and it was the first thing I ever saw rendered in VUE (at the time it was version 2.0) so I checked it out and wound up buying it myself. Was way easier for me to figure out than TrueSpace or Simply 3D were. I just KNOW you're going to enjoy yours once it arrives! Kate (wondering what her dancers are going to get up to next)

Kate, that's great! I HAVE to start using something besides Poser for renders - not that that will make me more skillful. The shadows are very effective, and I like the overall peaceful atmosphere.

I was very pleased with the shadows. Who would have thought that a simple point light in the chimney of the oil lamp would cast such cool shadows with the lattice work? And the best part is you can't see where posette's elbow is kinda wonky giggle Now if I can just find a really good grass texture. The one I used looks more like carpet.

"Wonky" is one of my favorite adjectives. Where in the english-speaking world are you? The word is not in common use in the U.S.

Kate - This picture is beautiful! And you're right...we really do need more romance around here. One of these days, I'm gonna have to break out the VUE and learn how to use it the right way. Again, Kate, a beautiful picture! Marybeth

I'm in California, Cage, but my roots are in the Idaho timber...my Mom was just full of all kinds of neat phrases like "cattywhompus" and "whosamawhatsis" and my all time favorite - "discombobulated" :) Kate with the interesting vocabulary

Marybeth, I found that Vue is as easy as Poser to work with once I figured out the locations of the xyz axis (directionwise, that is). The manual is excellent and is one of the few that I had no trouble following. My only complaint with the program is that there's not enough info on texture mapping in the manual. Give me a few months more experience and who knows, I may be writing tutorials. Gawd, what a scary thought! giggle Kate

Was watching the remake of "Sabrina" when your pic showed up. You've certainly captured that same '40's style romance in a charming fashion.

heya; very nice. i hope my vue comes soon. :) i think i see a bit of the unbalanced-ness of the composition. the main focal point is the figures, or is supposed to be. but over on the gazebo side, there is a lot of interesting lights and patterns and contrasts going on. so your eye kinda wants to look at the figures, but keeps getting distracted by all that on the other side of the picture. the two points of interest are at opposite sides with a sort of dark empty space in the middle, so it feels as if they are playing tug o' war. if you scoot the figures closer to the gazebo, it might work out without having to change camera angles on the wall. did that help?

What I meant is what Bloodsong has said. I also think the shadows form the gazeebo might be the key to unite those two composition points (already one patterned shadow climbs by her skirt). Maybe moving the figures (as bloodsong says) and increasing the light from inside the gazeebo could work. And about the theme, yes, we need more romance (although I won't give up naked beauties shooting at tentacled monsters, you can have both worlds)

Very nice! Very nice!