How to Change Day into Night

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Day for Night is a technique used in cinema to visually convey nighttime - whilst actually being shot during the day. The reason we can do this is because both sunlight and moonlight share a very similar quality of light, due to their distance and apparent size to us on Earth.

This means there are a few ways we can use daylight in place of expensive lights and setups to create a night scene - this usually requires a lowering of exposure and cooling down of the image using white balance and other techniques, to sell the look of night and how our vision perceives such a low level of light in reality.

This is just one aspect of what can contribute toward a cinematic feeling - check out the other episodes in the Lighting for Cinema A - Z series to learn more about what makes cinema feel a certain way:

   • Lighting for Cinema A - Z  


Lenses used:

Samyang 24mm t/1.5 VDSLR MK2
Samyang 35mm t/1.5 VDSLR MK2
Samyang 50mm t/1.5 VDSLR MK2
Samyang 135mm t/2.2 VDSLR MK2

Cameras used:

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro
Panasonic Lumix S5 (BTS)
iPhone 15 Pro Max (BTS)


Lights used in the video:

Nanlite Alien 300C
Nanlite Forza 720B




Video Contents:

0:00 How Do We Represent Night?
0:34 Moonlight Looks Like Sunlight
3:42 Day for Night Example #1
4:42 Day for Night Example #2
5:21 Night Doesn't Have to be Blue
5:38 Day for Night Example #3
7:08 Day for Night Example #4
8:45 Wrap Up
9:23 Support me on Patreon