thanks, doug! i just need to keep doing it until i get exactly what i want. in my challenge entry, i think how i'm illuminated is perfect. but my candles are all out of whack. and in that last one i took, my candles are perfect, you can barely see me, even with bumping up the brightness in postwork. i HOPE by changing the the settings a bit more i can find the perfect combo to that will illuminate me like in the first one and show my candles the way i want like in the last! :)