I was reading this thread and it's quite informative. I was wondering , rather than moving the spheres so they are offset, why wouldn't you just shrink the hdr a tad so it's inside the ldr and make it invisable to camera but visable to raytracing. Wouldn't in that case you get the lighting from that sphere but the background from the ldr that is much clearer?

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