A real still-life studio photograph lit by one large soft frontal light with restrained, even illumination, crisp focus and a clean catalog finish; the palette is warm cream wax and honey-gold flame light over cool gray-green shadow tones, deepened by the flames' own glow.
Square 1:1 frame. Exactly three plain candles stand together as one stable compact group, staggered in height: the tall candle at the back center, the medium one at the front left, the short one at the front right. The whole group sits fully inside the frame with clear margin on every side, and the flame tips end well below the upper edge with nothing cropped. Each candle carries one lit wick with a small teardrop flame, and a soft warm glow gathers around each flame and fades outward into the transparency.
The candles are matte cream wax with gently melted, drip-free rims and plain unmarked sides bearing no labels or lettering of any kind; the flames are bright gold with faint blue cores near the wicks. A soft semi-transparent contact shadow pools at the candle bases in the alpha channel, darkest at contact and fading outward. The background is true alpha transparency, alpha equals zero, not white and not colored, with no checkerboard pattern anywhere.
