Im recreating a Pen Image from scratch!:eek: Easy!!! For you!
My Image :
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Image I’m using as i reference.
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Im struggling with the reflections quiete a bit and some lighting, any other suggestions to making this more near photo realistic?
Thanks
~Wentzel
did you use cycles? That will (can) make it look more photo realistic. Other then that, make sure your pen has something to reflect, and play with the lighting, samples, and shadows.
what i would do here is put a plane in to act as a floor, it can stay white. also use environment lighting (you seem to already have a sky texture set up), make it brighter in general, and make some bump maps for the brand name and the little ridges on the clip thing.
@Max11D : I have already added a plane to act as the floor and added a HDRI to the Gold and point of the Pen.
Yeah it looks better with enviroment Lighting!
@Place57 : No i didn’t use cycles, Actually never used it before might look into it!
Il play around with it.
That’s really nice! I want to see the end results! 
Make sure you check “Ray Shadow” when adding lamps, and turn on ambient occlusion.
Small Update!
Added a few thing like subsurface scattering and @Animaniac888 Ray-Shadows makes a big difference Thanks!
Will try to make the Gold less Darken.
Your model looking good. Try Cycles its not have more option like that in blender render.
@Wentzel i just modeled and rendered in cycles to show you how it looks in cycles render engine.
if you don’t know how to use cycles means an introduction tutorial available in blendercookie.
ThankYou
