Hi...

Well many thanks for the 'headsup' Jo(Etzold)...
 
Your brief teaching's here has/have giving me lots to think about/with. Most I understand and few bits not. But all much appreciated. I'll try absorbing these wisdoms into my work ethic - if I indeed have one. 

Again you are 'spot' on as regards to the added spot/hair highlight and its position in the scene. I think I turned the highlight spot angle to 30 on that one, and the brightness at 40%. That light is also about 3 metres from figure, and the right hand shadow fill light is about 4 metres distant from figure, and about camera height  and closer to it - or thereabouts. The main, left side, light is about 5 metres distant, and maybe 5 metres in the height. I don't seem to have been able to get the, is it: light fall-off, controls on the P dials/controls to do their destined work... This is often why my light set ups flood the whole scene, rather than give control it. But I have to admit to not having 'tinkered' much with this/these light settings. Will take note though. 

I've had a number of years where photography had been my life... Not professionally but never ending and within many fields. So I know the basics of the art, composistion/lighting etc, etc, but find/have difficulty at times when adapting these skills to the Poser workspace. I think also that at times I am lazy!!! Simply wanting results without the required work ethic. Tut! Tut! But I do practise with many set-ups and scenarios and try to have fun as I go. I must admit that adding new content to my runtimes takes up much time in itself - in taking a peek at what the new item looks like under minimalist basic sets. I think also my brain power is not in the top class CGI'ers league, but will always try my damnest to keep up!!!

Who Dares Wins - as they say!!! 

Yeah I see the 'light' with the gamma thing... With it added, as bagginsbill showed, it does give a much certain punch to the scene... Again, as you say, it might be down to personal taste. I quite liked the soft, dark original image, with some element of mystery lurking in/at the rear, amidst that backdrop. 

For some reason I used some post work on those two latest images, which brightened too much, with also some added sharpness. The original was certainly darker and maybe richer in tone.

Oh-yes! The figure centred in the scene!?! Apologies to all there... I wasn't actually thinking artistically when I activated the Firefly renderer. Maybe I should do this at all times... I was, by and large, trying mainly to get the image of your amazing silver texture body suit and maybe the characters face in all their glory, and didn't consider the rule of thirds or such - sorry! I do get carried away sometimes - especially when balancing with trying to cook the dinner and feed the dogs and generally attempting to make the house look less like a cave and something more like a home. I must make an effort to escape my ways of juggling ten things at once every now and again.    

Thanks for the freebie headsup, Jo... I'll go take a look today!!!

As regards to the Naika for V4 morphs, you only need to add the basic V4 character (thank the lord) to the workspace and prop her with the magic N before going to the pose pallete selection - and then you're off... I tried out using all V4 morphs on Vicky and then added the Naika for V4  yesterday and it actually worked quite well - even though the memory count must have been well and truly through the roof!!! Oddly enough, when I first introduced Naika V4 to my Poser, nothing would work well, and the magnets more resembled the earths magnetic field than anything else, and the cursor would vanish for up to 30-seconds and freeze Poser with each and every small change/alteration or movement. But it seems OK right now! But then I've had that before with Poser... the programme seems to like hosting/holding gripping new content for a few days before finally letting it out to play!?! Strange!

I love the V4 character in general but can only load one figure into any scene at once - which is a shame and probably means I need the new Dell super computer when it is available. 

I'll have a look round at these suggestion you've pointed out here. Jo... thanks again for all your help. 

And now I suppose I should allow the thread to get back on track!!!

Oh Ms Ellis what have you created here!?!

AJ