Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't posted several of my last images here. Time to catch up I guess. I guess I'm just lucky it's been too busy to do much rendering over the past few months (the same reason I haven't posted them here). I did this image for my 100th image in my gallery at DA. nothing special, just a fun image. Dark skin is often a bit more difficult to light well, Hailey's skin has the same problem. After a few modifications to the shaders, and testing numerous lighting set ups, I finally settled on a multi-colored studio HDRI. I also tried several different environments, but couldn't find anything that matched her level of skin/surface details with the outfit, so I finally decided to use a studio type environment. The floor is a freebie from Aeon Soul (got it on DA, unfortunately they have moved to ArtStation and the freebie isn't available any more) and the curtains are Dynamic curtains from DAZ with custom shaders. The character is based on Hailey for G8F from DAZ 3D with a lot of additional morphs to mod the base shape and face. The outfit is "Street Kunoichi Tears for G8F/G8" from here (Renderosity) with custom color modification to change the color of the roses. In Gimp I used the opacity map to isolate the roses, copied them on the the diffuse map, colorized them to look like rose gold, save the new image and used it as the new diffuse texture (refection df the multicolored HDRI is why other areas of the outfit aren't a pure gold color). I used 10 spot lights for rim lighting behind the character and separate her from the background. The final step was to do just a bit of post work in Gimp. I added vignette, slightly adjusted levels and added a bit of sharpness. Hope you enjoy the image The image was rendered using Iray in DAZ Studio 4.20.xx beta, with post work in Gimp. Thanks for stopping by! Ohh, please be sure to zoom to full resolution to see all the details!!