Light reflections on non-reflective materials

[hellobard]

Hi,
I've got this problem on most of my renders and I'm wondering what I am doing wrong.
The walls are standard VrayMtl's with absolutely no reflection, and yet the objects near them are coming up as reflections on them. I realize GI is "contagious", but is there any way I can stop this effect from occurring?

[vlado]

The color bleeding depends mostly on your materials; you can play with the GI controls (saturation, contrast etc) to change this. Using proper linear workflow also helps to keep the effect in more natural limits.

Best regards,
Vlado

[hellobard]

Thanks for the help, Vlado. I'll give that a try!