Cinematic night: blue shadows, warm lamps and natural skin
Shadows lean blue, lamps and skin stay warm, greens slide toward teal and the blacks stay deep without going empty.
True to cameraCinematic night
Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Cinematic night at full strength, rendered from the same file.
| What it does | Cool blue shadows, warm practical lights and skin, deep blacks with detail |
|---|---|
| Good for | After-dark portraits, city streets, blue hour |
When we'd reach for it
After-dark couple portraits, city streets at night, sparkler exits and blue-hour sessions.
When we wouldn't
Daylight frames. A blue night grade on a sunny lawn just looks like the wrong white balance.
The recipe
These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.
Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.
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Try Cinematic night on your own photos
Start a trial, create a project and pick this look. The studio shows it on your frames, at any strength, before anything renders.