Lighting has been driving me crazy.  I'm still a novice, but I understand the basics.  What is driving me crazy is some inconsistency with the same scenes, with similar camera angles and sometimes the same character (but sometimes not).  Here's one for example, I had to tweak the lighting quite a bit so it wasn't too bright.  Part of why the lighting is driving me crazy is for some reason my render times seemed to have dropped lately, as I'm using the same render settings (saved).  I know complex scenes and lights take more time, but this is with the same scenes and characters.

Anyways, Amy again.  The lighting tweaked and using DOF with an F-stop of 8 & Miss Nancy's render settings.