I don't know still what you mean.. he don't said much beside images
you can't use a background picture and put an a sphere his test this on a picture of a light probe that was taken against the south (sun ) the photographer that made the light probe for poser7 mapped the hdr map little not usual and reverse the directions...
you should use a sphere map shader node and not a texture map for the sphere to get it working correct..

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