So, this one took roughly two days (no accurate seconds due
to booting in between to flush RAM) to trace.

Both hands have different sample-rates, because the right
one was looked at such an odd angle in certain cases, that
the media-algorithm messed up with less than 200 samples
(250 used on the right, 35 on the left!!!!).
Its also the right hand that doesn't look as good as the
left one, but they're made of the same material, so I guess
that's a lighting thingy, nothing which I can influence unless
those two hands don't belong to the same person.

The scattering media to add that nice glow was traced with
55 samples, the woman (as we don't see her so close) required
only 40 samples to look that good.
(Hm. I think that's something based in reality. You don't need so
many "samples" to figure if a woman is the right one or not...unless
you've spent a looooong time, and then you say: Well, that was
POV 3.5. We're at 5.6 now. Whatever. ;)

There are three lightsources. One external, out of image, to lighten
the entire scene.
One inside the woman to make her glow warmly from inside.
One just in front of the woman (actually between her breasts), to have
some light be shed from her glowing heart. If I'd placed the lightsource

further away, the breasts wouldn't have been illuminated as if from her
heart...
The inside "heart-light" required a lot of tweaking to not make it to
much or too less. I left it where it was after I've gotten to the point,
where
the light just illuminates the outer rim of her breasts, to actually put

her female character a little more in focus. I know, you'd have seen
her breasts without it too, but I think it has a much more attractive
sense to it.

No area-lights. No focal-blur. No ambient-light.

Its just what men should treasure most, IMHO.

--
Tim Nikias
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

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