Neve preparing to land at speed as she's just let go of the bar of the zipline she's using to glide from one rooftop to another. Her knees are braced for landing and one arm is extended to take a hold of the platform while the other is still reaching above her head with fingertips almost touching the bar. She's not wearing her usual hat or fascinator, and her carefully smoothed bun is tousled slightly out of place by the motion. She's in her trademark mint green, but just the tunic version with a light protective collar and elbow gloves, and a dark sable leather skinsuit underneath. The early-morning fog rising from the canal somewhere far below is painted a diffuse green in an echo of the detective's colors, and it conceals both the water and the lush palazzo edifices.

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The scene is more incidental here, the image is to illustrate lighting, but we have Fi's tousled hair out of focus on the left edge to give some context and contrast, and Harding herself stands squinting, with her head turned toward the blindingly bright Rivaini coast sunlight. The scout has reddish-undertoned, freckled skin, red hair, and wears her usual outfit with a multitude of textures from the fur collar, felt cape and sheepskin detail to leather armoring and gold details, with a white, almost canvas-coarse-weave shirt. The lighting is always a matter of taste, but here the way it washes out the brightest spots looks good, though ambient contribution is a little low so it looks a bit more contrasty than it would in a real real environment.

The reinhard-rgb mode with a little overdrive is really working for me. Harding's skin is super hard to get lit right and the light is washing out the shirt fabric and wood really nice too.

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It's really looking like it's not possible to reduce the tonemaps to a single one. Right now I have three, and I'm trying out two tweaked ones.

Original idea was a 'default' and a 'tricky lighting' map but it might be better to do 'default' and 'preserve-post-editable' instead?

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