Model: Freyja Nemeth
Skin: Tuesday from Blowpop
Lingerie: Frances from Angel Dessous
Shoes: Babii pumps from Adam n Eve
Hair: From ETD
Pose: Boudoir Rouge
Technique: A few client tricks were used to make this photo easier. By the time this room in Cicada was finally loaded (beautiful rooms with baked textures and lovely original sculpted furnishings, but my CPU usage stayed at 90-100% almost the whole time for some reason!), my model had gone to bed. ;)
Rather than hop over to her laptop to position her and so on, I turned under Allow Select Avatar. This allows you to select an avatar ... and then move it on the X-Y-Z axis (no rotation, however) so long as they don't move their avatar.
To turn that on: CTRl+ALT+D to turn on the Advanced menu, then Character > Character Tests > Allow Select Avatar. I generally also turn on Admin (CTRL+ALT+V), so I can turn on Build, set it to the Select arrow, and click that on the avatar to be able to move them around.
So, I have her positioned, I have some Windlight setting where I fiddled with the East Angle to get the light just so, and ... it wasn't quite popping. Enter trick two:
From Advanced, go into Debug. Search for RenderGlowMinLuminance. Set that to 0, and look carefully at what happens. Light gets a bit glowier and softer on the avatar. It's a useful effect if you want something glamorous.
I took two shots of this, the source for this image and a depth map (with the idea of using it to create a depth of field blur, but decided against it).
Editing of the source image included using Warp/Liquify to create the nipple, tuck away some corners, and so on. I then went into Virtual Photographer and used one of its filters to create more radiance and glowiness (is that a word?) to the image.
Finished it off with an overlay layer, filled with 128 Grey, and used Burn to create shadows. It came up a bit harsh, so I gaussian blurred it strongly and then duplicated and fiddled with opacity until it was where I wanted it.
Pretty happy with this one.
