Fake night

[Orio]

A tentative to make a night time picture by photographing the scene in full daylight
5D Mark II, Sigma Mini Wide 28mm f/2.8 lens.
Two variations:

#1


#2


Which one do you like better?

P.S. there is snow on the ground.

[Excalibur]

Didn't Hollywood use filters to do the same thing...daylight shots with filter looked like night shots in moon light. BTW the first one has a blue cast and 2nd a sepia one

[Orio]

Yes, of course the trick is a hundred years old
I did not apply any coloured filtering on the first picture, on the contrary, I desaturated the image, because it looked too blue to me.
The blue tint is the "natural" result of lowering the exposure.
In the second image, I applied a copper-coloured gradient filter to the image in order to obtain the kind of silvery green that I perceive in the nights when the moon is hiding behind clouds.
Further desaturation applied to second image.

[skida]

Maybe my monitor isn't very good, but I had to turn the light off in the room to make out any details in either of those and then I noticed the colour casts. And I thought my monitor was a touch on the bright side!

[David]

The latter is the only one I can make out anything in. It looks like a telephone pole, maybe? Both are really WAY dark on my monitor, and I know mine is calibrated bright. The first looks like a black box.

What was your subject? Is it possible to have less darkness?

[Orio]