Your first render: Pretty good. It could have used a bit of post as bizarro mentions. I dont care about the shadow, I can't draw them, Poser generally can't render them, I live with it. I have two things to mention. Her fingers are a mess. I spent a ton of time on fingers till I got some partial poses and started using the hand poses that came with poser. Fingers can take hours and hours to get right and you can end up never wanting to see this picture again.;-) Only partially kidding. The other thing is more important, cause stuff like fingers and smiles and that come with practice and a better eye for what you have catch. The lighting, though it shows off her legs well, leaves her face indistinct, some of it's well lit, some of it's not. Her eyes are not clear. Next render, I would concentrate on the lighting. Right now, as I said, from the waist down, it's gorgeous. For all my carping, it's a pretty darn good first public render. You put it up in a gallery?