Reduce the brightness of a lit area This room is currently lit, with a sun light and to a large part by the resulting bounce light.

I currently like the amount of bounce light, and how it shapes the light in the room.

BUT:

I want to reduce the brightness of the directly lit areas.

So i can whats happening in the areas that are directly lit.

Like that: (reduced sun-srength)



Is there a way to reduce the brightness of directly lit areas without reducing my sun-strength ?

Yes im usic the Filmic colour space.
You could render it with passes enabled and reconstruct the image with compositing. You then have the control of how much direct or indirect light you add to the compositing result: