Chambers wrote:
> Added a fill light, switched to area lights, and turned dispersion on.

I like the composition and idea behind this image. You are doing well so 
far.

Care to receive a few suggestions?

First off, since the primary light makes a heart shape on the pages, why 
not give that light a pinkish/peachy color? A warm color for the fill 
light would also be nice.

As Alain mentioned, the rings could look more reflective. Sometimes for 
metal surfaces, I bump the brilliance all the way up to 4, and knock the 
diffuse down to 0.25. I make the reflection{} and specular attributes 
fully metallic (for non-pure colors). It looks like you already have a 
good environment for reflective materials. You can pull more of it in by 
making the gold surfaces a little rough. Since you are using focal blur, 
you can probably get away with blurring the reflections with a surface 
normal:

bumps 0.125 scale 0.0001

Most gold surfaces do not have perfectly specular reflection.

Well, that's all. I hope I haven't offended you with my suggestions...

Sam

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