Bob, do not switch to matte for hair or skin, it lead to horrible results.

That is not the issue. Try changing other parts of the scene. Just for love of science, try enclosing the figure that you have without environment inside a cube. Scale the cube large enough to have the camera inside it. Set the cube diffuse to 220,220, 220 and the material for it to be matte. Re-render and see what happens.

Cheers.

Paolo

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