I have recently stopped using sky light rendering, and have resorted to using indirect lighting. Im my gallery,edge of the ocean 2 was set up using the atmosphere setting. I played with the clouds and turned the ground plane a shade of blue. i used one distant light source to white, and i used indirect light, not sky light when rendering. I put 2 cubes and scaled them so that i have a wall behind the camera in my scene so that light will bounce out and light the front of the subject. I hope this helps. regards, E