Just an update.

I got the normals issue on the stem fixed (related to my post about "problem 
with normals and stretched uv maps") and I've dropped using subsurface 
scattering.

After putting in a drop shadow on the background I've been playing around 
with the stem color and found, surprisingly, that I prefer the stems 
non-transparent and colored after all. The saturated brown creates a nice 
contrast to the gray shades and doesn't hog all the focus the way I had 
thought.

I've attached both the top image at 100dpi and an image with the overall 
composition of the 6 images.

I need to fix a few things still. One major question I haven't decided on 
yet is - should the stems have some kind of leaves here and there...?

Rune
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