personal choice indeed,I prefer the left image which has a much better use of lights & darks & is the more interesting image to look at.

I also agree with most of Wolfs comments,its sad that so many here are treated like pariahs because they dont use GC...its being treated like the holy grail for Poser users but I've yet to see anything remotely photoreal come from Poser.
also bear in mind the majority of Poser users are fantasy artists,GC is pretty much irrelevant for that.
I see a clash here between those that approach this as an artform & those that approach it from a scientific point of view...nobodys wrong.

I might use it in Poser if there were other advanced/photorealistic features like physical skys,photometric lights & physical cameras..but just GC alone seems to create nothing but washed out renders where theres a lack of rich darks & brights to bring the image alive.
basicaly the glowing nostril syndrome on a global scale.

 I've used it a few times in 3dsmax(in conjunction with the features mentioned above)..but I still prefer rendering without it,but I also render everything as a seperate element (spec,reflect,shadow,light,ao etc) & control it all in post.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=882838&page=5&pp=15
then again postwork is my favourite part of the process & when a straight render doesn't require it I tend to feel dissapointed.

to each their own..just dont tell people they are 'wrong' for not using it and all will be good :)

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