My goal is to be a better artist a good enough artist that my render can stand out. But right now I'm trying to make clean renders. Where the lighting is right,and their no noise on the renders.
download these links from a previous posting of mine for tutorials on lighting recommended...
https://f95zone.to/threads/daz3d-art-show-us-your-dazskill.4764/post-10906811
i am also a fan of these mesh lights for close up renders and only scene lights on your render settings
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a small tip...the mesh lights are parented to a camera...you can group them from create a group and parent them to the camera again...you can click on off their visibility more easily(they block your viewport sight in front your model) or translate them from parameters as a group behind your camera frame(they are in your shot on 16:9 proportions) Enjoy a series of skin lightings and experiment on luminosity values too until you get great results
i prefer to render my models alone on scene on png format and the environment if its enormous or doesn't add in the scene you can render it in viewport render instead of nvidia iray...otherwise open a roof or put panel lights outside the windows...study the tutorials...no pain no gain