I'm wondering what would happen if you:
1) got rid of the area_light and just stuck with the spot lights.
2) filled the room with very subtle media ( like dust )
3) raised the general ambience of the store, display area and all objects
4) relied on a supportive light source, perhaps light coming from a street
lamp in front of the store or from the other side of the street - maybe even
have the light react with the glass of the display window, i.e refraction,
filter, etc.

My two cents, for what it's worth.  ;-]

KB-

p.s.  nice progress on the trombone.

Thomas Lake wrote:

> I have been doing more work on the the image, however I'm not sure if it
> looks better or if the additions don't just add more problems? I'm still
> not finished, I'd like to add a drum set and a piano, and a sheet music
> stand. And some more things to go in the display case. I liked how the
> last image showed the instruments up close, hmm maybe there is a camera
> angle that combines the two??
>
> Also could someone help me with something here? In this image I wanted
> to get the look of a store at night. You know, where the only lights
> that are on are the display case lights and lights in the front. What I
> did was to put a single light in the display case and several spot
> lights for the hanging halogen lights. But I've had a really hard time
> making the light in the display case look right. In this image it is too
> bright, I want it to look like a bright florescent light but not light
> the whole room! I tried to simply change the fade_distance and power on
> the light but for some reason I had to change the fade power all the way
> up to 30 before I saw any appreciable effect, anyone know why this might
> be?
>
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