change to look like night

tinklady wrote on 10/9/2004, 12:18 PM

i shot something on a sunny day and i would like to try to make it look like late evening but don't want to loose faces with too much darkness. Any ideas? or should i just play around with darkness and contrast?
Thanks

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GaryKleiner wrote on 10/9/2004, 12:36 PM

You can change the brightness, but one of the main characteristics of sunny-day footage are the sharp shadows. They are not going to be easy to disguise.

Gary

MUTTLEY wrote on 10/9/2004, 1:38 PM

Try the " Night " settings in " Color Curves " if you haven't yet. Might take some tweaking to get close to what you want but should be a good place to start.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

tinklady wrote on 10/9/2004, 1:39 PM

That is what i am finding.
Thanks

vicmilt wrote on 10/9/2004, 1:48 PM

... also (and I'm not kidding here)

Video depends SO MUCH on audio. If you're telling any kind of story, I'd say darken the screen to just barely visible with moments of total darkeness while the qudio (story) continues.
People will assume it's night and will totally accept the darkness.
(See Blair Witch project for great use of crappy footage, held up by great story and tracks - well, ok, maybe not GREAT story, but good enough to gross $150 million bucks -
Of course, if you're doing a documentary on the Parks of Russia by Moonlight, with a music track, and no voiceover, this won't really work... :)
v.

winrockpost wrote on 10/9/2004, 2:11 PM

Ive used the colorcurves night preset and then applied bumpmap to hilight faces or features, with a little tweaking looks pretty good