These are as therapeutic as they are informational. Please don't stop releasing these.

the more I watch NOPE the stranger it actually looks to me, I was just reading that all of the skies even during the day are VFX replacements so they could control clouds, stars etc. I didn't bother diving it into in my video because it's such a can of worms - Jurassic Park's T-Rex sequence is a really good example of a night scene with absolutely no source continuity. Spielberg adds hair lights and kickers all over the place for the Jeep interiors, but exteriors are one giant sky source (the moon) narratively only the moon exists as light because the power is out, but Spielberg never takes it literally. It just always looks good and our brains never think twice about it. thanks for the thoughts.

I would suggest “screen” over “lighten”, that way every pixel is made up of every layer, it tends to look more natural

I can’t believe this is free. I feel like this is the stuff that I should’ve learned in film school.

Sweet video. I do the same thing when shooting interviews if I can't control light through windows in the background. I grab a plate at a different exposure and comp it in later

1 minute in and I subscribed, you've got everything. Solid audio, great story telling, good pacing and clear expectations in the video. gonna be watching regularly

This technique looks like a fantastic solution for day to night. But in the Knives Out shot, they had a character moving through the composite. I wonder how much there is to consider when the shot is a little more dynamic like that. Especially if the character gets near the buildings or practicals. Anyway, thanks for the tip! Might try some tests to wrap my head around dynamic shots.

Leveling up the craft. Thank you for sharing!

Nicely done! These day for night shots/composites are really stepping up production quality. It'd sell the shot even more if you can have a motion controlled slider that can move the camera just ever so slightly. Even 5 inches of travel would make a huge difference.

Your final looks awesome. Kind of a surreal look with this technique. You can see more than you should be able to, which is perfect for the magic of film

Incredible work Lewis. Really loving your channel. Very inspiring and approachable. Keep it up!

Thanks for the demonstration!

Definitely going to try this!

What a gorgeous result! Nice work

Dude...this is awesome. Can't wait to try this.

This is a fantastic bit of information for anyone seeking an alternative for night shots. Thank you!

This is beautiful. Reminded me of Rene Magrete's painting "The empire of the light".

Really next level stuff here man. Thank you for sharing!

Great ! Thanks for your valuable guidance !

Surprised how well that composite worked... that's awesome.

Nice. I've done day for night in the woods before. But now I'm gonna try this compositing version whenever. 👍

Phantastic stuff, thanks for sharing

You killed it! Excellent job and I'm definitely gunna try this out!

"I dunno, It's late, It's fucking dark obviously" hahaha love it!

Excellent, thank you for the works!

Reminds me of when I used to shoot Landscape photos. This technique is very common there

Definitely going to have to try this out!

Fantastic tutorial, keep up the great videos!

Really cool video! This reminds me a lot of the principles used when shooting HDR photography.

Wow, that was great!

Amazing brother love this idea of compositing differently exposed footages and creating very different lighting. Very useful tip for low budget film makers. Thank you

Amazing results at the end! You did a great job. And also, amazing video altogether.

Excellent commentary and fx walkthrough. I will definitely give this technique a go for night time shots. I am excited about experimenting with it in between projects. Thanks so much.

well done, effective small tutorial at great length with many applications

I loved every minute of this video and I really appreciated the effort you put into it to show the extra examples

This is so awesome, definitely doing this on my next shoot, thanks bud!

This was a great test, nicely done!

Really cool technique here! I enjoyed the deep dive

Love this 🔥🔥 Reminds me a bit of shooting long exposure film photography at night! Definitely going to try this 🙏🏼🙌🏼

Freeking amazing dude !!! Love the night composition

Really good video. I tried shooting day for night a year ago in Canberra for a short film competition at my work. I never finished it. I was pretty new to keying and my idea involved a lot of sky replacements and tracking. I'll still hopefully shoot it one day and I'll come back to this to remember how you did it.

Super Helpful!

Excellent! 👌 Thanks. ☺️

that's turn out pretty good btw! thanks for sharing with us Lewis

This is realy awesome compositing idea and results look sweet. I will have to try it myself. Great video

I’ve done something similar but with a 600d. Where I really needed 3 lights but only had one. I just lit the talent. Then moved the lights where I would have placed them if I had more lights. Shot that plate and comped it all in and used power windows to create a better shape. It Worked.

Brilliant stuff man !

Great video and fantastically warm fluffy onesie! 😉. Thanks for doing the video 👍🏻👍🏻

This is sick. I never realized how custom an exterior shot can be since it’s often stationary. Just go to town layering. Great vid. You kinda make me want to do a little KZfaq channel…

Cool technique, thanks for sharing

awesome tutorial as always. your choice of music is perfect

wow , this is the best tutorial , thanks so much

That’s a really cool look!

Amazing! Starting to be a big fan of yours.

Well done! Gonna try this :)

Nicely done!

Great video thanks Lewis, I'm going to give it a try myself. Your videos are very informative, thanks.

niiice, beautiful video!!! Both informational and pratical. Thank you

been wanting to try that with edelkrone sliders! cheers mate!

I love what you accomplished! I used to produce the marketing assets for a company that sold lighted sports products and I could never get that proper look I was going for. It was always too dark or too fake. This is the key.

This was so cool! Gonna figure out how this can be done and have a person/people in the scene.

Dude, DUDE!!!! As someone who's extremely fond of writing night scenes, this is a fucking game changer!

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

My favorite DP is back!!!!

I actually terribly enjoyed watching that . Bravo!

Thanks for the inspiration! Something to do this weekend. I have not tried a day for night shot yet, but know it will come up at some point. I have done the reverse with photography, a long exposure during a full moon and the moon blew out just like the sun. What I think is inherent to getting it real close is the bounce. Take a light with no reflector, and you get the super hard shadows, take a same light bounce it off a white card, and you get what the moon is doing, bouncing sunlight off the “whiteish” surface. I would like to try shooting the day plates while overcast, hazy, dawn or dusk, just to kill those hard shadows. Then to step it up further, use a sun and moon tracking app to see how close you can get positions to line up, or at least angles above the horizon. Great work.

I think this is just the way to film night scenes period. Looks so good

That is a great hack. I can't wait to try it. Rock on Brother.

Looks very natural!

The dappled light shining through the trees and hitting the house in the final result feels a little off to me, but on the whole, this looks very good. Bravo!

Great stuff!

Can't believe I just discovered your channel. Love your content!

Achievement unlocked is definitely the right way to put it

Mr Potts, this is brilliant 👏🏼 Didn't know this technique existed, Ill be sure to look out for it in films I see from now on.

It's Beautiful...Geat Job!

awesome breakdown

I actually don't mind that lighting change in The Sinner - it almost reflects what the human eye does with adjusting to the lights that are immediately nearest to us - street lights for example, and then not being able to see dark areas far away because they eye is adjusting for the bright street light. but when there are no lights at all you can see so much further into the dark. Kind of works for me, but I may be an exception haha. The trick with the IMAX and Infrared camera is something that Hoyte Van Hoytema did previously on Ad Astra to get the right effect for a fight scene on the moon. The day and night blending effect is pretty cool and gives a nice dusk into full night effect!

Look up the making of the small budget independent movie cosmos. They replaced parts of the sky at night. Great stuff.

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Very valuable video. Thank you.

That’s really good! More for the tool set

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Bro this video was fucking great. Amazing content. The way you shot this and set the bar is ridiculous. Subbed

Looks good!

great info. Been doing this sort of stuff with real estate photography for years now, with a bit more tweaking. Interesting to try this sort of stuff for moco set ups.

Sick video Lewis!! My wife and I just watched that season of the sinner!! Love a good mystery

Really fantastic.

Nice job on your shot. Beautiful final. The only thing I would have emphasized was you taping the spot on the ground where your tripod legs were. Matching the exact position of your camera is critical to get it right.Cheers

This is Magic !!!

Great technique. Never heard of this before. Going to give it a go though.

Super interesting mate!

Very cool!

Ahhh, I know it'll be a great day if Lewis posted

Love the channel 5 hat!

That final shot looked great! Good job! Better than the knives out example if you ask me.

Really good job, man! I know equipment matters for better quality, but the actual thing is the main idea and how to achieve the best with what you have and the result says it all. It looks fucking amazing.

Solid transition to the ad right there

You can use a similar technique to implement lighting interaction from your vfx elements to your live action elements

I'd love to see the more detailed process in Dissolve on how you achieves this along with exact camera settings / specs.

Lovely!