Going from day to night nightmare!

[Greg Neumayer]

In general, when I’ve needed to convert day to night, I make sure I don’t shoot anything with strong lighting. Most night light is reflected light.
One of the most convincing things has been the color of the light. Usually night light, although less intense, also has more blue in it, less yellow and orange like daytime.
Contrast is also affected. I lower the contrast, as most light in a night scene is reflected and shadows don’t have a whole lot less light than foreground objects.
I also reduce saturation. Look around you at night. Except for colored lights, most things look very de-saturated, and practically black and white. This happens to be an effect of our eyes, where our color-gathering cones can’t hack the low-levels, so our black-and-white gathering rods gather most of the info.

Hope it helps.
-Greg

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com

[Reloaded]

Hi, I’ve sent you the files again, check it out.

[Jason Rouleau]

Hi, yes I finally got the files. THey are nice but a little too bluish for what I’m looking for

[Annaël Beauchemin]

What is going to help you on this shot is to add city lights reflections to the window and door. For this, take a shot of a street at night, put it in additive blend, blur it a bit and composite it in the windows. You can also some glares to the door. It’s true that the image should not have very high contrast, but reflections should be much higher at night than in the day.

You’re still going to have a problem with the background tho. Is the bus/car/train moving? The only way I see to fix it is to track and/or roto it. Or aybe a key if you’re very lucky…

here’s what I could get: