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This was a lot of fun to do, and I'm going to include some of the technical gritty bits below because I think they're worth sharing.

~~~~~~~Technical Gritty Bits~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As always, DS 4.6 -> Reality 2.5 -> LuxRender 1.2
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/2
f-stop 2.8
Film Response: Advantix 400
Quality: 1.35 kS/p

Lights: This is were things get fun. There are 3 primary lights in this scene, all curved lights placed about where you'd expect them to be (in front of the figure, off to the left and right and angled towards her, one high above and slightly in front, angled down.) The big thing in placing these lights that is important is that they are LOW TO THE GROUND. And need to be. Too much downward angle, and they appear too strongly in the reflections of the water.... by backing them up, and keeping the angle of light low, the light does the work without over boldly proclaiming itself.

Lighted Pillars. No, the pillars aren't lights. To light the pillars, I created a group of cylinders, 5 meters tall, 5 cm in diameter. Think of them as giant fluorescent light bulbs. Each 'bulb' was then placed WITHIN a pillar, and the surface of the pillar was set to 'Mat Translucent' in Reality. The differing brightness you see on the pillars on the right from the pillars on the left is not caused by different values from the lights, but rather by different proximity from the 'bulb' to the surface.

Water: Reality Water material set to 'Clear Water' with a clarity of 1.0 (though .5 would probably have been fine) and a ripple of 0.17

Thanks for looking and I hope the technical bits are of use to someone out there!

Description
This was a lot of fun to do, and I'm going to include some of the technical gritty bits below because I think they're worth sharing.

~~~~~~~Technical Gritty Bits~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As always, DS 4.6 -> Reality 2.5 -> LuxRender 1.2
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/2
f-stop 2.8
Film Response: Advantix 400
Quality: 1.35 kS/p

Lights: This is were things get fun. There are 3 primary lights in this scene, all curved lights placed about where you'd expect them to be (in front of the figure, off to the left and right and angled towards her, one high above and slightly in front, angled down.) The big thing in placing these lights that is important is that they are LOW TO THE GROUND. And need to be. Too much downward angle, and they appear too strongly in the reflections of the water.... by backing them up, and keeping the angle of light low, the light does the work without over boldly proclaiming itself.

Lighted Pillars. No, the pillars aren't lights. To light the pillars, I created a group of cylinders, 5 meters tall, 5 cm in diameter. Think of them as giant fluorescent light bulbs. Each 'bulb' was then placed WITHIN a pillar, and the surface of the pillar was set to 'Mat Translucent' in Reality. The differing brightness you see on the pillars on the right from the pillars on the left is not caused by different values from the lights, but rather by different proximity from the 'bulb' to the surface.

Water: Reality Water material set to 'Clear Water' with a clarity of 1.0 (though .5 would probably have been fine) and a ripple of 0.17

Thanks for looking and I hope the technical bits are of use to someone out there!