How do you get such good detail! Like there's no noise and the textures all look so good! I know you should use higher resolution assets but even that can only do so much. Seriously teach me!
Also finally got around to making a balcony shot. Think it came out okay.
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Firstly, I'm thinking you've barely used any 'morph's' on her, barely more than, click figure, add parts from pack, add pose, bikini, expression & hair, plus a couple of small props, & a fairly simple set, with what seems to be a very basic lighting set up.
Where as for my #boobschallenge picture, at the top of this page, loaded the figure & Iray materials, added Musculature, Vascularity (lots of it, way more than I'd normally use), around thirty breast & nipple morph's (having raided the nipples from another G8F figure), plus Pregnancy morph's, added 3 piercings, plus Golden Palace Genital's & all of it's morph's. Then I added a Geoshell for the allover water droplets, then the Harness & Flowers (or snack as I think of them now), then tweaked & tidied up the pose & her grip on the flowers, then played with 3 different Volumetric Steam Clouds, playing with colours within the clouds, & lowering the density of them, then finally a dome & HDRI, for the lighting, added & played with camera settings, then waited three hours for it to render a 13mb image, only postwork done was adding a little basic Clarity & Shadows, & my signature as the final thing.
Yes, playing around with Daz for over 6 years helps, but the time spent on the figures, props, setting, lighting etc can & does pay off, sometimes knowing when to stop can help as well.
There's nothing wrong with your picture, given the level your at now, we all started somewhere, as much as it's 'mistressing' the software, it's also about your idea & how you put it down as a render, how you get around problems, there will be times when the software & assets won't let you get that 'perfect image' out of your head & onto the screen. Like most hobbies you'll only get back, as much as you put into it. Carry on, keep learning, & enjoy your artwork, & I look forward to seeing more & better renders.....