Yep, kelderek. You're right about distance and the psychological factor in portraits. No one likes having a lens shoved in their face, so you're more likely to get better results by using a longer lens and keeping your distance (at least with non-prefessional models). Of course, in poser, it's no problem. Re the human eye - yes, it does have a fixed focal length, but the eye is one of the most complex organs in the body and it has lots of tricks that we're barely even aware of. There's an entire department of the brain that's responsible for perspective and judging distance. Ever wondered how you know how far away objects are? If you didn't, you'd be in trouble. First time you crossed the street, the car you thought was 50 feet away would be on top of you. It's partly to do with stereoscopic vision, but the eye has a way of filtering out unwanted information too. Try this experiment. Don't think. Just look around you and fix on the first object that catches your eye. Once you're focussed on it, without moving your eyes, try and see how much stuff there is in the 'frame' of your vision. You'll be surprised. If you look at the TV, your vision can also pick up everything else in the room within a 180 degree circle. That's peripheral vision, or what we call 'seeing out the corner of our eye'. The thing is, our brain processes the information gathered by our eyes according to what we're concentrating on at the time, and filters out everything else. This is the trick a camera can't do. So you have to choose exactly what you put in front of the camera, then choose the amount you want it to see. You can improve your poser camera technique a lot by walking round real life objects and learning to look at them from different angles. Grab a brick or something and see how many ways there are of looking at it. Then do the same in poser. Use the camera to 'walk around' the stuff in the scene. You'd be surprised how quickly results improve once you start thinking about what you're doing and why you're doing it. That's why it's interesting to realise how amazing human vision actually is. It makes you stop and go 'Wow!' and that's what an artist needs. The 'Wow!' factor. LOL. I'll tell you a thing about photography. There's really nothing new under the sun no matter what technology comes along. But a lot of the best photographs all have one thing in common, and that's impact. Good photographers don't just plant themselves in front of an object and snap. They crawl under it, or climb on top of it, or go in real close. And the best photographs are taken in such a way that they jump out the page at you. That's impact. Hmmm.... I notice I haven't added a single technical detail about cameras. Well, that's good. You know why? Because any camera is just an extension of what we see ourselves. So the best way to take pictures (or use poser cameras) is to learn to see. mac