here's a quick idea. I just copied the base of the lilly using the magnetic marquee tool, flattened it, darkened it, and then moved it a bit lower and gave it a bit of transparency. but yeah, one way to fix it would be to render the frogs and the lilly separately with the same lighting using layer mask renders and then compositing them afterwards. the inverted masks could then be flattened and used. best idea I have for postwork. of course, you could always put a single spotlight in the geometrical center of the light dome and tinker with the settings of both the lightdome and itself until you can get a fait shadow that you can later increase in postwork. the third option would be dodging the dome alltogether and using just 8-10 lights (arranged in two crosses of 4), and with the one of them casting a shadow. you'll acheive similar results as with a lightdome. drac