Think I found the right lighting and formula for making the characters look photo realistic on the bridge set, one trick is to reduce the color satuaration with a gray scale alpha channel which brings up the shadow threshold.

 

I also opted to change the displays to be more bluish and reduced the color saturation on those as well.

 

some of the images here wont show that because I did those before I thought of it.

This image was in the experimental stages where I was looking for the right lighting and color satuarion levels.

I was also building new crew to fully crew the bridge at this point.

I know the displays look pretty good in full color, but I think they have more depth of field by reducing the color saturation and giving them a kind of crt bluish hue.

similar image as the first without any post work.

Fantastic work as always. You've done a marvelous job of capturing their likenesses, and it's obvious that you put a lot of effort into getting things just right.

I really like your work with the Star Trek characters.

Poser 11 Pro, Windows 10

Auxiliary Apps: Blender 2.79, Vue Complete 2016, Genetica 4 Pro, Gliftex 11 Pro, CorelDraw Suite X6, Comic Life 2, Project Dogwaffle Howler 8, Stitch Witch

Zoom is a must...Excellant job!!!

Win10  Poser 2014/Poser 11 Daz3D

WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY ALL STARING AT?

Hey! Wait a minute! That- that crewman in the back...

He's not looking where everyone else is! What's he doing?

He's playing Galaga. He thought nobody would notice but we did.

you know you may be right lol

playing with blurring things to root them to the scene, it's a complicated learning curve since i'm used to wanting things to be crystal clear and in full color.

 

in one image it's clear the others been blurred, as you can see the blurred one looks as if they are there the clear one, they seem to be not really there, like floating above the background set.

plating with blurring things to root them to the scene, it's a complicated learning curve since i'm used to wanting things to be crystal clear and in full color.

 

simulating a movie screen effects been an interesting project.