I do a lot of multiple shot images, though you have to weigh the photoshop work and skills vs the work to get it all in one shot. Sometimes one outweighs the other.
The above mentioned self portrait is about 9 images put together. The background is a stitch of 2 or 3 images. It was shot as 2 "sets" where I moved the camera and my spotlights.
This image that won in the B+W salon several years ago is about 9 images stitched together.
Icetites and Coldmites
I have also used this technique in Camps Gulf and other areas when my lens wasn't big enough, or I didn't have enough light sources. Though in Camps Gulf my problem was bulb misfires that didn't give me one consistently lit shot, so I combined them all to build one.