Lady Koshini waves goodbye to her friends as she leaves the party and heads out on her own adventures!
==AMY’S NOTES==
OMG, I could NOT find the right backdrop for Koshini in this dress. I must’ve tried several dozen prop sets, and nothing looked quite right, not even this one, but I decided to just call it good. I’d originally wanted to put her in the Palace Entry by RHS, but the colors didn’t go well with the dress. I only have the one texture for the dress, and it’s designed in a way that really needs a custom texture, not “universal materials.”
I’m also never sure if the DOF effect looks right, maybe b/c I haven’t had experience as a photographer doing portraits. I understand the principles of DOF and the settings, but not necessarily when to apply them. I rarely render with DOF enabled b/c I tend to use the main camera’s “perspective dial” a lot, and once you’ve used that more than a little, the focus_Distance tool no longer works. So I’m more likely to add the DOF effect by including a Z depth map in my render and using that with the lens blur filter in Photoshop. But even then, I can’t always tell if it’s adding anything to a scene. I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that my extremely nearsighted and aging eyes tend to prefer everything to be as sharp as possible!!
Rendered in March 2022 using Firefly in Poser Pro 11 for Mac at 3200 × 1800 pixels.
SCENE CREDITS: Aradior Point by P3DA; TerraDome2.
CHARACTER CREDITS: Koshini2 toon figure and Clothing Pack 15: Betrothed by Lady Littlefox; purse from Sensibility outfit for V4 by Ravenhair.
Even after I posted this image, I wasn’t entirely happy with it, so I ran it through Painnt and that definitely helped. But then I came up with two results I liked and couldn’t decide between them, so I’m sharing both of them below!
