here's the fist adjustment - turn down the intensity on the main light. this is with it set to 50% (down from the original 70%)

One more thing to add - render settings. one thing I finally came to grips with - cranking your render settings and rendering for hours is not going to improve the result if your lighting and materials suck to begin with. cranking up samples and .001 shading rates etc are not going to help at all if the basic stuff is not setup right. When I first started I would crank all the sliders as far as I could and wait hours (or days) for renders - as I learned from BB and you can see by the settings I posted - you don't need to crank the settings to get good results.

Thanks BB ! and thanks again for all the support and great stuff you give to the community.

Thats it, add your hair and boost up the render settings a bit (not too much) and you're done.

Still 1min 30 sec render time (all pics are 500x500px)

here are the settings I used

Select the main light and use Object>Point At to aim the light - I used point at v4's Head

for the rim light I used Point at Neck

Here's the result - same render settings

render time was 1min 30 secs

poser pro 2012

dual core amd

I opened the Soft Studio Lighting Scene

added the studio backdrop prop from pp 2012 props

Added v4

Loaded up Danae's Dublin Character

seleced a basic pose and hit render.