I'll look into those morph dial builders. Thanks pjz99.

@ Melisand - I don't use any one light set in particular. It's simply trial and error, with thankfully some luck accidents along the way.

My two most recent images, which are very similar in a number of ways, use a custom HDRI with AO (hence the muddy shadows) and a specular light for eyes etc. That's it! Just two lights! (Well, not REAL HDRI, but the Poser 7 approximation).

If you have Poser 7 I'd suggest using the included HDRI sets. They're realy quite good, particularly 'Pond'.

I also do ALLOT of colour and contrast correction in Photoshop. The raw renders can be horribly washed out.

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!