This is a “day-for-night” shot I fixed for the 2016 feature film “Split” by Deborah Kampmeier. A standard grading approach to pull off the “day-for-night” shot did not work due to excessive light blooming around the actor’s face and body. To remove this problematic light blooming, I first created a map of the scene’s brightest values and then set those values to act as negative lighting values in a new negative light blooming pass. Then, to clean up any remaining edge artifacts, I tracked small light sources with negative exposure values to areas around the shoulders and face. Finally, I added a light source with rays and some atmospheric fog to bring the whole composite together and give it some added depth.

Compositing & VFX: Andre Basso
Post Facility: Nice Dissolve
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
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