Also, your shadows might be turned too high. Under the light parameter tab look for "Shadow". Be default, it is set to "1" which is unnaturally high. Sunlight has a Shadow of .912.  The lower you set it, the dimmer the shadow will appear in a render. Play with that and see what you'll like.

On the second tab of the light is Properties. On it you'll find the blur radius. For Ray-traced shadows it's set at "0) which means hard-edged shadows (Which occur in a hard vacuum!). The higher the blur, the softer the edge is.

Play with those two, and some fill lights and you'll do fine!:laugh:

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