Render is too bright in cycles

[Amaterasy]

Hello guys.

My render in cycles is too bright. I am not sure what I changed in the settings some time ago. I am following the blender course and I see that in the video cycles renders much darker than evee. For me it the same bright or even brighter in cycles. Ambient occlusion is turned off. I have reset the settings to default but it is still the same.

Is it the same for you?

The same happens when i render scenes with color, it is much brighter in cycles which is not what i want as I set up the scene in evee.

Do you have any ideas? Thank you

[FedPete]

You can not compare Eevee with Cycles.
They are different render algorithms.
And it’s a known fact that Eevee lighting is different than Cycles (more precise).
It’s also something that Blender Devs are trying to fix.

Eevee does render very fast but at a cost of light and shadow calculations.
Cycles is precise, that is why the version of the cycle is noisy (fireflies).
Cycles need more light samples to calculate. 64 > 128, 256, … 2048
But then it slows down the process. So they invented the Cycles demoiser.

You will learn. Have fun.

[NP5]

As FedPete says, they are very different engines. Effectively you need to decide which you are aiming to use at the end result and light to suit that.

[Amaterasy]

Oh I see. Thank you. I hope I will understand more with experience