I agree with Trepleen, the picture with the 85% light intensity and the envsphere set at 1.0 is closer to what you want. But I would like to add that our Sun is not a blue-white star. Our Sun's light is slightly yellow. Clouds in the atmopshere can make it a whiter light when it's overcast and you're getting more diffuse light, but I think with bright sunlight like you're trying for could use a tiny bit of yellow in it. Also check the textures on all your patio set. If they're plugged into the diffuse channel, then the channel needs to be set to .85 not 1.0, otherwise, more advanced shaders would do the furniture good. I'd do a search on BB in the forum and start collecting shaders he's freely published.

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