I look around the gallery and see these awsome camera positionings to get a good close up portrait type shot of the head or pretty much 3 quarters of their body. My question is what camera settings do people use to achieve these im not very adapt at using camera dials, I can move the perspective to make it a bit bigger and drag z tran to move it in and y to move it up and down and what not, Perhaps to achieve these camera shots do  I need to play with other dials.

My shots tend to render pretty good but they just dont pop out at ya like some of the examples I included below. Which is the effect I'm trying to achieve. So if anyone can post some camera settings for me play with and learn from please do.

**Examples of What Im trying to achieve (not my work)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1437887

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1432891

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1429554

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1446242

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1448619 (nuity)

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CStrauss - I think the first thing I'd change is your focal length. 35mm just doesn't give the right perspective, I use 150mm for my portraits. Other people will use different settings but I use this as a base.

I have all of my cameras set to 105mm. I noticed that the head of my figures were elongated and asked about it and was told to use a setting of at least 105mm.  I've never tried anything higher as this seems to work fine for my needs.

A__ has some lovely portrait packs which include poses and cameras. I use them a lot and they are very easy to tweak.

As everyone else has said, try adjusting the Focal length of your Poser Camera.

I've written a very quick tutorial on it here...

Thanks all for the tips and advice I just got home from work and going to cool down a bit from working and then jump in to poser and play with my cameras and thanks for the link slinger just quickly browsed through them but i will read more of them later tonight too they look interesting and I love poser tuts I always find something new to try.

I will post back with any questions i come across and progress thanks again

In the real world, you'd use nothing much shorter than an 80mm lens for portraiture (on a 35mm camera), unless you were after a distorted effect.

It's been a while since I did any photography, but I remember using a 100 - 200 mm zoom for head and shoulder shots.

I'd experiment with those kind of settings.

The other half of the problem is the lighting. Have a look here for some standard lighting arrangements. And check the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor. It may seem odd, but "Brightness" sets the black level, while "Contrast" sets the white.