Can't give a more accurate render time than 'about 7 days' 'cuz computer
decided to reboot at 6 days...photons, focal blur, media, radiosity,
yadda yadda yadda.

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It looks a little washed out. Perhaps you could work on the lighting to
increase the contrast (primarily, darken the dark areas)? Or just photoshop
it =)

The focal blur looks really high quality, and the photon effects are very
pretty.

I would have suggested a different rug color, like perhaps dark red, to fit
the library theme.

Otherwise, it's a very good image. I must admit I have a hard time figuring
it out, though; there's an angel, obviously, and a sword hovering in front
of her, but I have no idea what it represents.

Nice picture in the background =)

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Slime wrote:
> It looks a little washed out. Perhaps you could work on the lighting to
> increase the contrast (primarily, darken the dark areas)? Or just photoshop
> it =)

Took a bit of work to get it where it is, I was trying to get one gas
lamp to illuminate something properly (it still doesn't)...and the scene
without the ambient media is WAY overlit.

> The focal blur looks really high quality, and the photon effects are very
> pretty.

The pretty photons are the result of many struggles with fighting with
them...the results were pretty disasterous when I had the media collect
at more than 1.0.  Focal blur is 100 samples, confidence .999 variance
0.001.

> I would have suggested a different rug color, like perhaps dark red, to fit
> the library theme.

Strange, I always thought a library should have green felt-like carpet.

> Otherwise, it's a very good image. I must admit I have a hard time figuring
> it out, though; there's an angel, obviously, and a sword hovering in front
> of her, but I have no idea what it represents.

Well, the hovering sword doesn't represent anything in particular other
than being a start at an approximation of a sword I own and something to
bring out the depth of field in that area...as for the angel...I'll do
a render looking at the wall behind the camera some time.

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