Baggins - what about making the reflection sphere very small (scale to 10%) - then you can get the camera closer to the sphere. Was thinking about this some more - the IBL Image should create very bright areas for light sources. However rendering a light in Poser doesn't actually render brightness (ie. it doesn't actually render the light - just the result of the light hitting something). To get around this, you really need to add a props at your lightsources, and have them set to 100% white ambient in the mat room. ....or is the IBL image just a fill light - and you are keeping the main lights in your scene for illumination and shadowing?

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