Fireflies - Portrait Photography and Art Contest - WEEK #123

Josephine, doing a "cover shoot" for a national magazine, fan blowing her dress and hair, sporting designer clothes and jewelry, with smoke blowing into the frame...the firefly lights were added in post production.

This render is an entry to the Portrait Photography and Art Contest - WEEK #123

Thank you to @axeman and World of Xpilar for hosting this contest.

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Started with a Genesis 8 Female Template.

Added the completed model, after I morphed the body, makeup, changed her position, facial expression, and added clothes.

Added hair and jewelry.

Added a smokey background.

Added fire embers.

Added fireflies and additional smoke.

Final render.

Tools and assets used:

Daz3D Studio, Iray and Photoshop
Genesis 8 Female Template
Nirv Sweet Pie Hair
Beth Clothes and Jewelry
HDRI and Daz3D Lighting
Infinity Cove Shoot Environment
KAFF Ember Field
SYCI Confetti Cyclone

In Summary:

• I start out with a model template and morph the body physically.
• I put the body into a position, change facial expressions, add makeup, dress the model, add skin texture, props, etc…
• I either can embed the character into the background or wrap the environment around the character, then add lighting and camera settings, like depth of field.
• Rendering times can take 10 minutes to 2 hours per render.
• Postwork in Photoshop (adding imperfections in the skin, changing atmosphere and lighting, etc…)

Stay frosty people.