Hello! Okay I'm pretty familiar with Poser but this is just a lighting issue and I'm not sure where to start looking.

Moving from Firefly in Poser #9 to Superfly in Poser #11, obviously it was all about Area Lights, and Superfly is incredible, and that move was great. BUT moving from Superfly in #11 to Superfly in #13, it's all about using my Apple GPU ... and the speed is incredible. HOWEVER, even opening the same scene, with the same render engine, the lighting is all 'flat'.

See images below, same lighting, I've tried different settings for the area lights (like putting the Sun area light down to 70% and then up to 150,000% ... makes hardly any difference):

^ and I know I can use postrender to up the exposure/contrast etc, but it's not that. Even with Exposure up to maximum, it doesn't come close to improving the issue. I know I can improve the noise in all sorts of ways, but ignoring that, what should I do to begin sorting the lights out?!

Anyone have any bright ideas?

Get it? Bright ideas???? Pretty good right. Anyway yes, advice welcomed!