In article <39e972cd@news.povray.org>, "Mick Hazelgrove" 
<mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote:

> The figure gave much more trouble and it will have to stay as is: 
> spotlights were horrible and served only to increase render time and 
> light up the surroundings. I've tried double illuminate, increased 
> ambience, reflection etc. but nothing really makes it more 3d, anyway 
> I suspect it would be more or less a silhouette in the real world.

If you want to see him from this side, you will have to put a light on 
this side...ambient will only flatten things out, I don't see how 
reflection could help. In this image, he looks too bright, he stands 
out. It looks like somone composited a cartoon character into a photo.
Try reducing the ambient and maybe giving his coat/cape a bit of 
specular, and make it darker, almost black in areas but lighter in 
others, like it just finished raining a bit, but not enough to really 
soak him.(the wet areas would be dark and shiny)
And besides making the cape darker, make the shirtsleeves and pants more 
of a dark blue-gray. From this angle, you may not be able to easily see 
the difference, but it might make the image look better.

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