Yeah, I second the www.itchy-animation.co.uk link. It's a gold mine!

As for lighting your scene, I would:

• use a dark blue into IBL node to provide the overall mood

• without "nuking it", I would use a spotlight instead of a point light. I would make the falloff soft and set the color to light orange.

This wasn't rendered in Poser but you could reproduce something like this very easily.