"but what I want to try and achieve is pushing the boat out with purely poser as far as I can"....."IMHO such a gallery should reside on the Smith Micro site, as actually is the case. It's their software, so they should want to showcase what the program is capable of, without postwork."

Then you should call it a pure "poser firefly" gallery then.

Here is the issue IMHO

A "pure" poser render  will still only be as good as the modeling topolgy& texturing quality of the canned THIRD PARTY content and even lighting presets you are rendering within poser.

As we know,(unlike those render challenge models in the Imkenzie link), not all poser content is created equal.

A V4 Character pack with the "elite" texture set from DAZ and a IBL studio light set from RDNA, will likely look better and get more gallery hits/challenge votes etc, than poser's "Alyson" using only the content that shipped for her in poser.

So frankly a "pure" poser gallery section or challenge will still likely be dominated by only  those who can afford all of the best third party content& lighting presets.

Making the fact that the image was not touched after the render somewhat moot. IMHO

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