Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> 
> > Area lights can help soften shadows without adding too much extra brightness
> > to the scene.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob Hughes and David Fontaine also suggested that I could use area lights.
> 
> So now I hope that it will not take 10 times longer to render the picture. :-)
> 
> (I think it took  4-5 hours to render the image.)

I wonder if placing red two disks where the shadows fall on the blossom(?)
and bringing up their ambient values could compensate for the dark shadows?

It'd be "cheating" but it might render faster than area lights.

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