Personally I'm not trying to get a render that's indistinguishable from a photograph, not with a $250 program, that I actually paid a lot less for with promotional discounts. And even if Poser is able to get 95% of the way to photo-realism, I'm not willing to dedicate my computer to a single render for multiple days to accomplish it.

I don't WANT to have a photograph, honestly. I actually prefer that the image be recognizable as a constructed fantasy that evolved out of my head. Not a mannequin-like Posette with no shaders or shadows, but a high-quality (to me) image that renders in 10-20 minutes at full size. That I can do with Poser and some inexpensive models, textures and lighting.

What a trained 3D artist with a $1K rendering program and $20K computer station might think of it, I could give a flying (f-word that BB is allowed to use here)