Many thanks for the input.

 

Anthanasius:  A couple of reasons - It adds more light and shadow to the environment.  I also don't have my final scene(s) fully figured out yet.  I'm not sure what camera angles I'm going to need, so I want to make sure I have light everywhere I might need it.  Oh yea, I forgot - there is also a mirror in the scene (cropped out in the picture I posted) that may reflect what is behind the camera.

 

hborre:  I'm not using IBL  (I never figured it out and then 8 came along with IDL which is easier for me and I think works just as well for my current level of expertise).

 

As best I can tell, the light is just above the bottom of the fixture.  I think the light is still too intense which is causing the effect you are noticing.

 

Plutom:  Unfortunately, I can not uncheck casts shadow for the light fixture.  The light fixture is just two material groups on the figure, not a body part.

 

Bagginsbill:  I've tried dropping the transparency to 70% and adding in some diffuse at 20% and it looked like it had been pasted on in postwork.  I then tried 20% translucence and it didn't do anything at all.  Once the computer comes back up (Poser crashed on me, so I'm rebooting just to make sure everything is good) I'll try a render with 90% transparency and 5% diffuse.

 

I'm also increasing the blur radius to 1 and the shadow samples to 32 as a start (they were at 0 and 19) and I will keep playing with that.

 

I was afraid that was my choice with the florescent lights.  I'll probably start with 2 point lights per fixture (there are 5 fixtures total) and add a third if needed.  (I don't have the computing resources to go crazy).  How much green are we talking?  RGB(250, 255, 250)?  (I always thought florescent lights looked bluish - maybe I need to go get my eyes checked.....)

 

hborre:  I've played a little with self-illuminating things in Poser, but never been happy with my results.  (I'm probably doing something wrong).  Does they light from a self-illuminated object behave the same as light from a Poser light?  (i.e. IDL, reflections, etc.)  If so, I will need to go back and play with them some more.

 

Thanks for all of your comments, I do appreciate it.   I'll post an update later this afternoon (I hate it when real life gets in the way of my hobbies.....)