I wanted to do something with a bit of dramatic lighting with this dress (Roxanne for Genesis 8 and 8.1 by Rhiannon at Renderosity). This color just fit so well with my Brianne character (based on Brianne for G8F at Renderosity) that I decided to do another image with her (tried a few other characters, but she just fit perfectly with this dress). No real backstory here, I just wanted to create an introspective mood with the pose and lighting, as well as highlight the figure/character with the lighting. I wanted more than not just a pretty figure. I wanted sort of an alluring thoughtful figure in a thought provoking image .... not sure if I succeeded, but hopefully you enjoy the image. The scene set up is fairly simple. The main lighting is a soft HDI that is creating the key light sort of behind her and to her right front side. A spot light was placed behind her to create a rim light using rectangle geometry about 100cm high and 40 cm wide to make is a soft light. Two additional low intensity spot lights were used to highlight her face (I used two to help soften the shadows a bit as a single light was too harsh, and I could use geometry because the lights are in the view of the camera). The scene is Contemporary Living by Stonemason at DAZ. It's and old product, but still quite usable. I used 3 Iray Sectional planes to allow the light from the HDRI into the building. The trees/hills and night sky in the background are an image (photo) applied to a plain. The character is a customized character based on Brianne from Renderosity (a lot of additional morphs and shader adjustments). The dress uses dforce and simulated very well. Amazingly, I didn't modify the shaders on the dress, the color and shader settings were exactly what I wanted!! The hair is dynamic as well, the simulation of the hair and the dress took about 8 min. to run. Basic post work was done in Gimp. I slightly adjusted levels, added a bit of vignette, a bit of unsharp mask, and of course the signature. The scene was set up in DAZ Studio 4.2.xx Beta, and rendered using Iray. Thanks for stopping by!! Oh, Please be sure to zoom in to full image resolution to see all the great details in the image (especially the lase on the dress)!!!