Pashtun by ethnicity, Gula's parents were killed during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan when she was around six years old. Along with her grandmother, brother, and three sisters, she walked across the mountains to Pakistan and ended up in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984. At the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in 1984, Gula's photograph was taken by National Geographic Society photographer Steve McCurry on Kodachrome 64 color slide film. The pre-print photo retouching was done by Graphic Art Service, based in Marietta, Georgia. Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry seized a rare opportunity to photograph Afghan women and captured her image. Although her name was not known, her picture, titled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her piercing sea-green colored eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine, and the cover itself is one of the most famous of the National Geographic. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl In this image I tried to capture the feel of that famous photograph. The 'cloak' is the same conforming Hajib from my previous image just dialed out in all directions to encompass the hair also dialed in to hide it under the cloak. The picture is also rotated to the point where you can't see any of the left over sticking out bits in the back. The skin texture is the same Girl Next Door texture as Strength and Pride with the glossiness on the lips turned down a bit and the cloak texture is one of the Reality4 presets with custom colors added to it. The eye texture was made by taking the Green Grey iris from Black Hearted's black eyes and pasting it onto the whites of one of the HyperReal's eye sets. I did this in Gimp, but in hind site I probably didn't need to do this since the iris is a separate material zone then the sclera. The background is Reality's simple plain with a color sampled from the actual photograph. Once complete the KodaChrome 64 Film Response was applied in Lux Render with a D65 daylight white point to try and capture the color balance of the original photo. The model is V3 with morphs dialed in to approximate someone with the same kind of features as Sharbat Gula with out it being a digital clone as V3 really didn't have the range to get that close and I'm not very good at dialing in digital clones anyhow. No post was done to the image other then a format change from png to jpg so it would fit in with Renderosity's size guidelines. The original can be found here, but keep in mind that I was going for a tribute piece that hinted at the original rather then a digital recreation of the original. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl