Lighting black in black: keyboard mice specific Vray

#1

Does anyone have any pointers or tips that they can direct me to for rendering black on black with sharp contrast, dynamic, and realistically in vray for 3ds max. What I do is render mice and keyboards, and I am having difficulty achieving this realistically. Any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers!

#2

I usually render dark plastic a little lighter, more grey than black and adjust the gamma value in post. Makes it a lot easier to get good contrast.

#3

I would imagine it’s all in the reflections of lights and/or hdri. Rim lighting etc. Different glossinesses.