> Quote - I mean do you set all your 5 lights shadows to 0.200? Or some reduction..? Sometimes black can get too black...

No, all the shadow values are 1.0.  If you want the black area to be non-black, then 1 fill light will suffice.  Black is simply 0/0/0 color; stacking 50 shadows onto a surface won't make it any more black.  You do want to turn the brightness down though; 5 100% lights pointed at the subject will be too much light.

I had to recreate the scene since I didn't save it, but this is pretty close.  There is one fill light at 35% off to the right (spotlight again).  Also gave the ground plane a bit of displacement texture to make it more obvious what's going on.

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