I almost always render in several passes. Most of my scenes are in some environment such as a building or street, so I render with the Shadow Catcher enabled for my figure(s), then render the scene without figures. Stitch them together in Photoshop and if necessary, drop a sky behind the whole shebang. Sometimes I'll render a sky backdrop - I built a couple of simple sky shaders - and sometimes I'll use a simple gradient fill.

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