Interior lights brighter and bloom more than windows?

[justini]

So I've got an interior scene with down-lights according to lumen specifications (3800). Outside is a Vray sun with an intensity multiplier of 1, and a dome light with a multiplier of 1 (using a VraySky map).

The colour float values of the pixels for the downlights are between 200-400 per channel. For outside the window the colour float values are between 2-6. This causes the lens effects to bloom for the interior lights but not for the windows.

This is counter intuitive to me. A photograph of any interior space would presumably produce a bloom around the windows more than the interior lights. Surely something lit by the sun would be brighter than an interior downlight. Am I incorrect in assuming this??

[^Lele^]

You're not seeing the sun or sky (directly) through the windows, though, just their lighting on the geo, while you're seeing the light fixtures directly.
Do you have a reference image you're trying to match to?

[Neilg]

Looks about right on this reference -
https://www.hatchdesign.ca/wp-conten...fice-space.jpg

[justini]

You're not seeing the sun or sky (directly) through the windows, though, just their lighting on the geo, while you're seeing the light fixtures directly.
Do you have a reference image you're trying to match to?

To be honest, I don't. Which is a bit foolish. Perhaps my intuition here is just way off.