Thanks I'll pass the comments back to the 3D artists. I know they've discussed the fingerprints thing before and it's been agreed that very minimal use is fine, but they have been distracting and occasionally overused in the past.
Fingerprints on polished surfaces is another one of those trends (much like messy beds) - super popular in CGI, but in reality as a photographer you would wipe the fingerprints off before taking the shot - especially for such a close up on a product!
Strong work as always.
Finger prints I mentioned just as an example. In reality such polished surfaces always have some kind of micro impurities - even if it is just from cleaning and wiping the cleaning stuff away, a bit of variation in the reflection.
Too perfect - like in 3D - is always like "wait minute" for the eye. :))))
Also: most faucets are cast metal, not CNC machined. So the surface is often a bit uneven. Easily to recreate the effect with a scaled up bump map that distorts the reflections.