Learning Curve

[Zoom123]

Hello,

I am new to rendering. I started testing various programs recently and today I downloaded the 30 day trial of VRay. My first attempts with Vray (leaving most things on defaults) produced quite good results really fast, and from what I hear many people consider it as the best renderer.

Of course I also noticed the vast amount of options and I realize that the learning curve for Vray must be quite steep. I watched a few tutorials and it seems that at least some of the options are for achieving an "enhanced" kind of reality and nice looking results. If all I care is to get a result that will be as close to reality as possible (e.g. if I have a room with bad lighting that looks bad, I want the rendered image to reflect this), and I don't care to make the rendered image look any better than what a snapshot of a real scene would be, are there some option categories I can totally ignore and never need to learn about?