Quote - > Quote - DustRider - that picture is how I see Lux should be used for rendering Poser figures.

You have taken advantage of what Lux is good at (lighting) in this scene. I see too many Reality/Lux renders that have wasted the whole purpose of using it, eg. figures rendered without an environment or a crappy one.

 

Clearly Luxrender is good for scenes as you describe however it is after all a render engine and has many differences to Firefly which can be utilised for all renders.  Also many of the renders being produced via Reality 3 are in many ways 'work in progress' as users start to use and understand both R3 and Luxrender.

Portraits can be enhanced by quality of jewelry which Luxrender is also good at and many other factors.

Anyway here is my last attempt, another figure without a scene but I am playing with skin tones and trying to age my V4 character using the merchant resource for old skin that is on sale here at Rendo.  I was not happy with my first attempt and this one has the 'smooth surface' setting switched off for the bump under modifiers and also uses micro facets.  The setting keep sharp edges is unchecked. 

I really like the surface details you got on the skin, thanks for sharing how you did it!

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