What lighting solution do you use? Looks very consistent. My renders always look bland and dull, even with the use of an hdri.
Ghost light only here
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one Dome light on the ceiling and one standing lamp to the left.
temp is around 4000K
as you will see in the upcoming scene is that i changed light for some renders to point light and mesh light
mesh light gives best shadows i think but its not great for lightning up a whole room.
i went back to the ghost lights for the reset of the renders.
its consistent becuase i never change their positions LOL
you can play with exposure value and also highlightss burn and shadow clipping.
you can add more contrast to a photo if you tweak those
or you can also change it later in PS (levels)
just cut the areas high and low with no information and the picture gets an contrast boost.
after that you can set the mid point (gamma)
one other solution is to make an S curve in PS for the "curve" setting
lower shadow details and raise high details