I'll be explaining three techniques to light an exterior scene. Covering HDRI Lighting, Physical sky shaders and custom lighting. Along side some Arnold techques for adding camera effects to your renders.

Download the scene file here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Sz...

HDRI are avavilable frm HDR Labs:
http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

Displacement map is avalable from solidangle's website:
https://support.solidangle.com/displa...

Table of Contents:

02:27 - HDRI LIghting
09:17 - Physical Sky
19:25 - Custom Lighting
26:01 - Custom Sky Shader
32:40 - Low Resolution HDR
36:05 - Camera Vignette
44:30 - Water Displacement Shader
58:44 - Environment Fog
01:09:33 - Depth of Field