i'm weird about it - i like hyper-realism mainly when it is hand painted a la rich corben and like to use poser to stretch for less realism and more illustrative uses. it's not so much a matter of setting up renders, since i more often than not render each figure and prop as individual .png knockouts and then assemble everything in photoshop on the fly (in this case each figure and each plant were rendered with no floor or ground shadows and each ultimately occupied a layer in photoshop and positioned that way) you may notice that i like to ape various eras of art and a keen observer would see the late 60's/early 70's black and white comic style reflected in this splash type piece.