hey Paris…thanks for this wonderful post!!! yes, lighting is so important…I have a bit of mine to add and that is that increasing the contrast of the snaps for the blogs always works so do try and play with contrast levels!! also, yes, I have a basic sony camera but I wanna get a basic DSLR as my next cam but I was confused between the best P&S or the basic DSLR coz of the zoom difference!!! but, its definitely gonna be canon