Here's my little moody Noir effort for the week. It's been cloudy and drab the last several days which put me in the right setting, as this one took a few evenings to hammer out the lighting. Normally an IBL and a mesh light, then off to the Lux races. This one, however, with the heavy addition of frosted glass in the windows and door made for a firefly show on many attempts. It ended up at 3.01k samples over about 22 hours to smooth out the last of them with one distant exterior mini-mesh at 5000 watts (for the nice shadow of the mysterious Stranger on the frosted glass), the desk lamp at 40, the cigar at 5 and nearly no gain, and one giant mesh light behind the whole set up to produce shadow softness. Done! Light post in Gimp for smoke and glass text. Daz4pro--Reality2.2--Luxrender 1.0RC1