Hey, great job! But I have to tell you, that pic looks ultra fake with the gremlin in it. ;) OK, seriously. If I were doing this, I would do a few things to make the objects a bit more convincing. First, if you can smooth our that hammer head just a touch, I think that would be a great help. Also, the nails are just a little lacking. I see them and know that they are nails, but there are a few picky details that flag them as a render. Here are a few of those nit picky details: nails don't have conical tips. They actually have more chiseled tips, it's a subtlety, but I think it will make a difference. There is also a little texture (grooves and what not) on the sides of nails. Also, I think that if the heads were slightly rounded (using a torus around the cylinder), you'd get a good result. I attached a photo of actual nails, and of a nail I made some time ago. I know, I'm being really anal. The only reason is because you said that you're shooting for photo realism. Photo realism is a real bear just because the shear amount of detail involved! I might also enter the sky lab and turn down the shadow intensity just a little bit. I really like the nail that is partially driven into the wood, It really helps the image a lot! I'd love to see it rotated a bit more towards me so I could see more of the head though. At the angle now, it looks like it's driven into the wood crooked, and I think it would show more depth if it were rotated so that it was perpendicular to the wood plane. I like the simple concept. I like tools. I think that the wood is really nice. And, I really admire your ambition to go for photorealism -- with only procedural mats! That's quite daring, and I think it's awesome. And, of course, who wouldn't love the eyebis? Although if that were my work area, there may be smashed eyebis. As cute as it is, it would scare the crap out of me if it were real. ;)