Hi Dooki,

Yes I'm the same -ASH- from Polyloop.

Don't use Carrara much these days, though. Mostly modo now :-)


Main thing to look at is lighting. This is a big subject but here's a starter for 10:

http://www.3drender.com/light/3point.html

You can also get some good tips from looking at photography lighting tutorials. For your model google photo product shot lighting and also 3d product shot lighting. I play around a lot with lighting, lots of tweaking and rendering and tweaking and rendering and ....well you get the idea ;-).