Skygazing

I know it’s still winter and today there’s even a “wintery mix” of weather, but I am ready for spring! So, here is a scene of some skygazing among spring flowers to get one out of the winter blues. Her hand is supposed to be shielding her eyes from most of the sunlight as she looks at the clouds but I’m not sure if I posed it right or not. What do you think? I did spend a lot of time trying to make it so that the shadow from her hand would project on her face in such a way that a sliver of light would pass through where her fingers were open for her to see up at the clouds through.

I rendered this scene in Poser 12 Superfly with a single spotlight standing in as the “sun” and a skydome bringing in ambient global light. I also rendered the scene with a heavy depth of field effect to give the scene a sense of depth rather than looking like a flat image. In postwork, I used various adjustment layers and a couple Photoshop actions to play with the colors and contrast until I got the artwork you see here. Finally, I added my watermark.

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