For 25 years I was a commercial photography mainly working in fashion and entertainment portraits (aka headshots). Now retired, I am 3 months into trying to do the same in Poser. I cant seem to locate my main 3 tools, other than my Nikon.

1  A 4' x 6' white photographers "softtbox" for direcly above the camera.

2. A 36" Round gold reflector placed on a stool in front of the models face
3. A sleeved scoop neck standard dance leotard.

I work mainly with v4 and gnd4 in particular as I like the skin texture realisim along with the wonder bra morph. but am open to switching charactors if need be.

Reasons for these in real life

1. unparaled softness provided by the two layers of diffusion in a tru proffessional soft box. although the lighting is flat with little dramatc "modeling", it is increadibly forgiving with the female face and creates a glow that can not be created any other way.

2. the gold relector reflects the softbox up filling in even more shadows with a nice gold/tanned touch.

3. Both the Softbox and the underneath th face reflecter provide a remarkable set of "catch lights" that in real life provide po and carisma and in poser would provide a lot of realisim and "soul" to the model.

4. In a a headsot, color, lines and patterns can be distracting to the viewer. you should always be drawn to the subjects eyes first, even if they are naked. lol then you have succeded!  the black leotard(and it almost looks like the top to an evening gown or little black dress. and the scoop of the neckline draws the veiwer up to the face nicely.The eye is drawn to the lightest area of the picture, make it the face around the eyes,(even if they are african american. If your good all you need is these tools and 18% editorial grey background (created on a backlayer in photoshop) and you have a celebrity portrait of someone, less talented beauty or portrait photographer use all kinds of backgrounds and props to cover their lack of skill. You want people to say "she is so beautiful" or "hes handsome"....you dont want people to say what a great and creative picture luckly I learned that early in my career. Same can apply with your rendering of a castle. ie "what a beautiful castle!"

Does anyone know where I can find these tools in the poser world? sorry for the long explination, but I needed to explain my method to the madness, so you understand what I need and why it needs to be so. You want people to say "she is so beautiful" or "hes handsome"....you dont want people to say what a great and creative picture luckly I learned that early in my career
Thanks in Advance
Steven