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Hey guys, Havent posted in a while but figured I would put up my latest render.

Pathtracing, Bloom from Octane, no photoshop.
Let it render overnight on 2 GTX 580s, a GTX 690 and a GTX 780 TI. Rendered at 4k and sized down.

Crits welcome

It looks great to me. My only niggle is why, in the bright daylight, are the lamps on?

Ya, I have had a couple of comments on that. Originally the scene was darker, so I had them on and then just left them on cause it looked cool. But i think im gonna do another render with them off to see if it looks better.

Yes definitely try turning off the lamps and find a way to get more natural, soft, ambient lighting into the room, would really lift the shot. I don't really like the white strip of carpet at the end of the bed, it looks like an spare off-cut. Make it a full sized rug that you can stand on when you first get out of bed on those cold mornings. The colour usually should match or compliment the bed spread. A couple examples..
The colour of the bedspread and bedsheet covering the pillows need some sprucing up. The sheet actually gets lost against the wall behind it, there needs to be more contrast here. Maybe pick up some of the orange from that beautiful painting. Maybe something more organic for the bedspread rather than geometric lines, again to complement the painting. Some examples..
The wooden floor doesn't exactly grab me by the short and curly's. Lots of nice, clean and 'almost' tileable (with a little photoshopping) wood textures here:

http://www.carpetcall.com.au/gallery/ti ... e=Swatches

and here:

http://timberflooringking.com.au/timber-flooring/

In most commercial and catalog photography, all lights are usually on, day or night. Not in all cases, but I'd say about 90%.

During my agency days, we were always instructed to turn all lights on. For commercial images anyway.

best,
O