Quote - A while back, I was the Critique forum moderator.  Kinda quiet but there were a few regular posters in there.  Everyone - including me - benefitted from suggestions and advice given in there.  I always welcome critical comments on my work.

 I rarely postwork, not because I can't but because it bores the hell out of me.  Also, I don't see the point in making a so-so render and tarting it up in Photoshop if you are trying to push your knowledge of Poser.  For a client, it's a different matter; then I'll use whatever is to hand. 

There's definite merit in that, not doing postwork but rather trying to push yourself harder to learn Poser (or Carrara in my case), to get the most of of the render program possible in terms of render and image quality. So it if takes alot of trial and error in doing test renders, (no aa, low pixel accuracy for most of them, medium settings for semi-final proof tests).

Worst thing I hate about post is once you start postwork, the image becomes "static" . On the off-chance a finger isn't wrapped properly around the item in the hand and you don't notice it til after the postwork, or change your mind and make a few more posing adjustments, likely some of that postwork is wasted effort. Same with if your wanting to do multiple camera angle renders. Postwork means redoing alot of it for each different angle to make/bring each image to the same quality.

After all, this is just a hobby. That Render and lighting book 2nd edition does look interesting. Would be worth getting, to see how much more I can improve the the project  scene prior to rendering.