Oh and replicand -- I totally agree on the subject matter of most images. There are very few people out there who can consistently produce good work with Poser.
It does what I want it to do, I'll never be more than a hobbyist, nor do I really strive to be.

But no matter which software we all use -- the one thing that makes or breaks an image is... lighting. If it's lit wrong, even a brilliant composition looks wrong and it doesn't matter what it was rendered in. I can render in Maya. No problem at all. It'll be crap, because I don't know Maya, but that doesn't stop me from dropping some freebie mesh on the ground and rendering it.
Does that make my image better? No.

Unfortunately most Poser users don't really look at the lighting in their work, and that's where it all falls down. :) But the same can be said for a great number of 3D "Artists" who use other programs.

And yeah... a mesh is a mesh. No matter how much someone might sneer about buying meshes it's not like just because you have 3DMax / Maya you can automatically model. :)
Nor does it mean that someone modelled everything you rendered yourself. If that were the case, then Turbosquid wouldn't exist.

Silke