"Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] netinsnet> wrote in
news:3cc336cb@news.povray.org: 

> Thank you.
> 
> Here is the radiosity settings and light I'm using.  Perhaps I
> shouldn't use a pure white light but try to emulate
> sunlight better.  I agree the lighting is off I'm just not sure what to
> alter.

A few suggestions:

It looks like you might have an ambient component in at least some of your 
finishes.  global_settings {ambient_color 0} will fix that problem.

Try moving the light a lot further away and, as you say, adding a yellow 
tint:  light_source {<1, 1, -1>*1e6 color (White + Yellow) * 1.25}

If yellow-tinted light doesn't work, try tinting with red or blue.  Blue 
tinted light will desaturate some of the red tones in the scene.

Soft shadows wouldn't hurt, if the render time isn't too bad.

There are no shadows on the bamboo wall.  Is there perhaps an errant 
no_shadow tag somewhere?

Use double_illuminate on the leaves if you aren't doing so already.

Add a fine surface normal on the pot to break up the specular highlights.  
Same thing for the trunk of the bonsai.

Remember, of course, to delete the radiosity save file before rendering 
after making any of these changes to the scene file.  :-)

Hope this helps.

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