I Know A Guy Shady Life Simulator Creature Photos — Where and How to Shoot the Red-Eyed Creatures

Short Answer: How Creature Photos Work

Creature photos are a shady favor: you are asked for three pictures of the red-eyed creatures that appear around Hobarey Town at night, and you take them with a camera bought from the store computer. The reliable method is to go outside between 22:00 and 02:00, head into the woods, find small red lights in the distance, zoom in from where you stand and shoot. Do not walk up to the creature, because it will run toward you and past you and you will lose the shot.

That is the whole loop in three sentences, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it: what the camera display tells you, what the quest giver actually asked for, and how to recover when the target refuses to show up.

Step by Step: The 22:00 Window in the Woods

Step	When	What to do
1	Any time	Buy the camera from the store computer under the misc section
2	After 22:00	Leave the shop and walk outside with the camera equipped
3	After 22:00	Wander the woods rather than the streets; sightings are reported deeper in
4	On sighting	Watch for small red lights, then zoom in without closing the distance
5	In frame	Confirm the target readout names Night creature, then take the picture
6	After three photos	Return to the quest giver at the pizza shop

A checklist version of the same route:

• Confirm the quest is active before buying the camera, so the purchase is not wasted.
• Set the time window in your head as 22:00 to 02:00; arriving early is the most common reason nothing spawns.
• Search the woods rather than the main street, and keep moving deeper instead of standing still.
• Use the zoom instead of walking closer.
• Take the shot the moment the readout names the creature, even if the framing looks poor.

What the Camera Readout Tells You

The camera is not a free-aim photo mode; it is a targeting tool with a label. One player describes it plainly: whenever the camera points at something, the game says what it is at the bottom of the camera display, and that label can read Store, Trash can, or Night creature. Whatever the label says when you press the shutter is what the photo counts as.

Readout	What it means for the quest	Action
Store, Trash can, or other scenery	A valid target for other photo favors, but not the creature quest	Reposition and keep looking
Night creature	A valid creature photo target	Shoot immediately
Nothing useful	You are aiming at empty scenery, or the target is out of range	Move deeper into the woods and re-check

The quest giver is also explicit that image quality is not the point. In the playthrough log the NPC says the photos are good "not because they are clear but because they are not," which is why a blurred shot taken at distance still completes the objective.

Troubleshooting and Related Photo Quests

Problem	Likely cause	Fix
No creatures spawn	You are searching before 22:00, or searching the streets instead of the woods	Wait for the window and search deeper into the trees
The creature runs off	You approached instead of zooming	Shoot from your current position next time
The photo does not register	The readout was not naming Night creature when you shot	Re-frame until the label appears
The quest will not close	A tracking issue, which this game has patched more than once	Use the item-dependent Quest Reset added in the hotfix

Three habits that waste the least time on this quest:

• Do not sprint through the trees: a moving target is harder to frame than one you spotted from a distance.
• Do not take a photo of a trash can or a storefront and hope it counts — only the readout label matters.
• Do not run the hunt on a day you have not opened the shop yet; the counter still has to pay the mafia on time.

Creature photos are one of several photo favors, and the same camera serves all of them. Forum thread titles show players also hunting twelve unique trash cans, a photo of an NPC called Sierra Bloom, and a set of prisoner photos, and community feedback in the Steam discussion board notes that camera quests could use a rework. Because only the creature quest has a documented, reproducible method, treat the others as unsolved until someone posts a route.

One warning that saves time: most large playthrough videos predate the 1.0 release on September 25, 2026. Quest tracking, the Quest Reset feature and one early mission were all changed by patches after those recordings, so if a video's instructions fail, check the version it was recorded on before assuming you are doing something wrong.