Thanks Guitta, The apple had a shadow under it but I couldn't get it soft enough, it looked to distracting. What I did was place a spotlight above it to remove the hard shadow. And the asparagus..... Every time I moved it further down onto the table, it seemed to go into the table... this was as close as I could get to just having it "sit" on the table. Thanks very much for your suggestions, I do appreciate them, John Also, I forgot to mention, the food and flowers are from Trillium36.