It's been a while since I've used POV, but I'm confortable 
enough so I don't need hand-holding answers and I can look 
things up in the docs when pointed in the right direction.

I'm rendering a Gazebo, and I want it to be in bright Dallas 
sunshine.  So, one light source in the right spot, and yow, 
the contrast is too high.  The shadows are too dark.  Yea, 
it really does look like that, but the eye adjusts as you 
look around.  I tried turning up the ambient light setting 
but it doesn't look good.  I threw in a fill-light with 
"shadowless" and it does help.

But any more expert suggestions?  Real light is the bright 
sun plus a general glow from the whole sky.  A huge area 
light would be inefficient.  The "ambient" light is much 
less under the roof than outside, but there's no direct way 
to say that that I recall.

--John

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