Lighting and Renderin:

I used 3 lights; one was the Key light and the other lights were Fill lights (Fig.03a)

Fig.03a

For the render, I split them into four parts and merged them later in Photoshop (Fig.03b).

Fig.03b

I created four render passes: Color (with shadow) pass, Ambient Occlusion pass, Specular pass and Alpha/Matte pass (Fig.03c).  I used HDR Shop to create an HDR image for glass reflection only.  I didn’t use any FG or GI.

Fig.03c

Compositing:

At this stage I began some simple compositing work in XSI.  I didn’t use alpha/matte pass (Fig.04a-b).

Fig.04a

Fig.04b

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I then continued with some other compositing and tweaking in Photoshop (Fig.04c-d).

Fig.04c

Fig.04d

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