Quote - tpoys? What's that? LOL. No worries, I translate typos on the fly, I didn't even notice! :-D

Thanks :) 
I think there's benefit to having some of, whatever it is I have, a touch of ADD with a side of astigmatisam and a little helping of dyslexia. I don't notice typos very much, mine or someone else's. LOL

In spite of making comments on your image, I still really like how you lit it, it's great.
The thing with a column being in a way... you could set up two lights, one on eaither side of the column, and turn their intensity way down, half ways or more.  I'm not sure if that would work, it's just an idea.

Another thing I tried doing with your image... I don;t know how succesful I was with it is make the darks a tad less dark, and the highlights not quite as strong, which I thought would soften the image some, but still keep the right atmosphere. Give it a little bit more overall ambient light, softer shadows and little less spotlight.  In photographic studios that is usually achieved by diffusing light with various semi-transparent (milk colored) glass or plastic planes in front of lights, or by those 'umbrellas' you see.

Personally, I tend to tweak ambient light a bit, and on a more rare occasion texture ambient itself to achieve this. I find fine-tuning lighting in Poser somewhat frustrating... perhaps only because I'm more used to other programs...  I should add a caviot to what I'm talking about and say I have much more experience in lighting in Bryce and Max, so I may not be aware of some of the poser specific differences...
So, my comments should be taken in a more general sense, and probably need to be 'psersized'  ;)

Overall, you seem to have a good eye for the lighting... now it's the matter of learning the little tweaks and fine tuning that professionals use, to make their images look really polished up. Learning that does include a lot of time, testing and hair pulling (at least it does for me, and I can't  say that I feel I'm even half ways there.)
I get in a same spot pretty often, I'm not getting the effect that I'm envisioning in my head, but I'm running out of time and patience and know how to make it happen...

Hugz, Connie

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