Attached Link: Lighting Essentials website. Lots of great tips regarding light & photography

In photography, still, & film & video, we like to shoot outdoors under overcast skies, because it acts like the worlds biggest softbox, even sofft lights & shadows. Sunny days are beautiful, but when filmimg people close up for example, you have to deal with the harder shadows.  Options that have to be taken include finding shade, or using some sort of diffusion next to or even above the model to even out the light. On huge film shoots, it is not unusual to have 5,000 & 10,000 watt light banks to counter the bright light of the sun, & control shadows.

[http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/media/folder_5/file_238472.jpg

](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/media/folder_5/file_238472.jpg)Notice the 2nd sample at the top from Cath's P6 Studio light set. The light is even with soft shadows, much like the cloudy day.

The light tips at the link apply to Poser as well. The concepts are the same, although sometimes we have to be a little creative in the Material room to replicate, or simulate, the look of real world light.