Using the HDRI as Lighting

I used a cheap plastic Christmas ornament as a light probe yesterday. There are some artifacts, but it is much better than it was before.

The Raw image is a little dark. Probably because I have not yet mastered balancing the levels of the HDRI.

After Tweaking the Levels

Soften the edges to match the lens. I think the color is a pretty close match, but I need to add a projector with a breakup, and sub surface scattering to the goose (I can't find the file with the SSS layers, so I just duplicated the bump map layer; the material doesn't look much like feathers without the layers)