This is a great render and I'd like to give that skin shader a try someday

But honestly said, I don't like the idea of being constricted to the inside of an environment sphere.

It's also too close to photoshop trickery for my taste.

I rather prefer to work in "actual" 3D environments so I want lightsets that work under vastly different conditions. (It's the scale modeller in me)

If I get a decent result in an empty scene, then the light set will also give me decent results no matter what I add to the scene.

And of course Photoshop manipulation is an absolute no-no to me.

And of course anything that takes longer than a minute or so to render as otherwise I just loose interrest. :-)

But as I said, impressive render, Carodan.

Just not the way I'd like to do things in Poser. Perhaps the difference is:

I don't want to create a render.

I want to create a complete 3D "world" that I can photograph.

:-)