I posted this one in the gallery, but the glasses are disconcerting. I've turned off shadows in the scene an on the glasses. It's the lights for sure, but the only way to get rid of the one dark rim is to eliminate the pink light, which radically changes the mood I want for the scene. I even tried rendering a .tiff of the glasses under different lighting, to use in postwork, but the look of the glasses was not satisfactory. Any ideas?? I have Poser 5 btw.

Hi :) May sound really dumb but if you really get stuck why not move the glasses a little ? So that the light catches the black part :) Not sure if it will work though and I use poser4. But its all i can think of right now :) Hope you get it working ! Pic looks AWSOME by the way ;) Cya ~GI

Thanks GI :) Moving them didn't work in this case, but I did manage to find a fix using P5 materials and making adjustments with the nodes. Let me know if this looks better.

That looks much better. I love character studies, and this one is a beauty.

It is really really great! Very nice character :o) The textures on the dress have a seam though. But I would think it could be postworked out :o)

Wow, this is a great image. And texture seam on the dress doesn't bother me. Dresses often do have seams on the shoulders, after all.

Thanks a lot everyone :) The dress seam could probably be a more "realistic" seam, if I could figure out how to add a little "bulk" to foreground side of it, or shadow behind it....you know....so it looked more like a real seam. A little postwork would also help where the white trim meets and it may help as well to adjust the size of the texture, so it doesn't look so out of focus. Thanks for the feedback. I like character studies too dialyn. I posted this and another called "Marie" in my gallery. There's a little story involved with this character....sort of a sad story.

I just went to see and "Marie" is a lovely tribute ... we don't always have the fortune to have a neighbor that we remember with such kindness.

Thanks dialyn :) Yes...good neighbors are few and far between these days. I live in a rual Minnesota town of only 320 people, but even here, it's only the elderly and the immigrant families who seem to know the importance of visiting with their neighbors and doing kindnesses. I'm fortunate to have a family who immigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico on one side of me and another elderly woman on the other side of the street who are equally wonderful neigbors. But Marie was here when I arrived and stands out as special. Thanks for your post :)

My next door neighbor and I bought our houses near the same time and it happens that our houses were built for two spinster sisters in 1920. My neighbor is younger than I am, but we were both single, and we have had a remarkably compatible five years living next door to each other. It wasn't that we spent time together because we don't but that we could depend on each other to help out here and there in small ways, or just watch out for each other. Now she's met someone and her house is too small for both of them and their combined total of four cats, so she is moving. And I'm going to miss her as much as I would a friend leaving my life. I know, in a small way, what you mean. I think Marie would be awfully pleased that you think of her the way you do. I hope you've been able to tell her so...it is amazing what a difference a kind word can make to a person.

I think she knew.....but at this point she is still in a comatose state and not responding to much of anything I'm afraid. Every now and then she will smile at the mention of her name, but that's about all. A very sad situation. She never wanted to be in a home and I'm afraid that's what the future has in store for her, should she continue to live. In some ways, it's probably fortunate that she won't know where she is.

"The dress seam could probably be a more "realistic" seam, if I could figure out how to add a little "bulk" to foreground side of it" Why don't you try a displacement map.