Need feedback on lightning and texturing

mrcreative

Hello , i am a beginner and i need feedback on lightning and texturing i did in this scene from http://www.3drender.com/challenges/index.htm  . its lightning challenge #1 Fruit bowl . I did iterations to the best of my current artistic eye . Feedback will be appreciated . Here are the renders . Texturing done in substance painter and rendering in cycles.  

Sigmatron

Looking tasty

Overall I would advice to add some imperfections on the textures, especially on the diffuse and roughness of the fruits. Also I suggest to explore some options of the SSS on the grapes, it would be nice to have some transparency.

mrcreative

sure  . Thanks for feedback .
here is what i improved . Added bit of damage to  the fruits . Can anyone guess the time of the day from it ? cause i wanted it to be a morning scene where fruit basket is near the window . 
Also how do i add transparency to the grapes  i tried SSS but it looks more unrealistic after increasing SSS ? FOr transparency i tried to add transmission and set it to 0.2 with default IOR  . higher values make grapes black and glassy .  

Sigmatron

Looking better! On a next stage I would advice to sync with some references. For example a banana:

As for SSS you can try to render few passes with a different light/surface parameters and then compose it in photoshop

Ashervisalis

Make sure to give the ends of the banana a lot darker of a material too, its looking very bright on the stems of your bananas. Add some height to these bits, with an added grunge map in to give the height some variance. The orange looks very low resolution (texture-wise). I think adding imperfections like Sig mentioned would help.

mrcreative

thanks for feedback . Here is what i imade . 

icegodofhungary

Much improved on the nanners. I think all the fruit looks good except for the grapes. There's just something off about them, they look plastic. Not sure what it is. I think there's too much yellow on the plate overall. The red and orange break it up a little, consider red grapes. Add a little more texture to them like this: