Hello all.  I'm sure many of you have seen Cath/MEC4D's latest tutorial work

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1520561&member

I want to start a discussion & exploration on this idea of HDRI IBLs in Poser 7.

Here is a render using the pond HDR inculded in P7 (HDRVFX_pond_01_v_002.hdr)

The 2nd one is the same setup, except the IBL image is the lightprobe/angular map version of the same HDRI (also included in P7, (HDRVFX_pond_01_v_002a.hdr to be specific)

(I plugged the image into the contrast..to see what influence if any this has vs leaving it unconnected)

Notice the difference in shading & light response. Any thoughts.

Cath, I noticed you mentioned setting IBL contrast to 0.0, but when I do i get a black render.  Any insight into your use of "0" contrast to yield the incredible finshed product?