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night 006 light lowlight. With the Night Halation preset applied.night 006 light lowlight. Photographed without a preset.
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Cinema Night Car

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  • Presets10
  • Stylefilm, night, street
  • Works inLightroom desktop and mobile
  • Format.xmp and .dng

Night Halation · film

Night Halation makes one kind of light.

Puts paint, chrome and tail lights under sodium on a clean motion-picture negative with cyan shadows and deep blacks.

Cinema Night Car is 10 presets for film photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

About this pack

A car at night on motion-picture negative is warm sodium on the paint, cyan in the shadows, tail lights held as red rather than white, and blacks that go deep without noise. These ten looks do that on a digital file: cinematic split, high contrast, highlights protected for the lights and the chrome, grain kept finer than the halation packs because the cinema look is cleaner. It is the first pack in the cinema-night line and the one for automotive work after dark. Ten presets, one look, one job, stepping from a subtle glow to the full bloom so you pick the version the frame wants. XMP for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom desktop, DNG for the free Lightroom mobile app; exposure and crop are left to you. Night Halation is for the hours when the lights come on and the camera should have been loaded with cinema film.

  • Paint and chrome under sodium
  • Tail lights red, not white
  • Cyan shadows, deep blacks
  • Finer grain than halation

Automotive night shoots, parking garages, petrol stations, city streets with cars.

The look is inspired by motion-picture colour negative film such as Kodak Vision3. This product is not made, licensed or endorsed by Kodak. Inspired by the look of classic film. Not made, licensed or endorsed by the film's maker.

See the light change

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The same frame, one tap apart. Drag any handle and the scene goes back to the way it looked before Night Halation touched it.

Morning boats, before the harbour woke. With the Night Halation preset applied.Morning boats, before the harbour woke. Photographed without a preset.
Night Halation applied to Morning boats, before the harbour woke.
Morning boats, before the harbour woke.
An ordinary corner, looking like a story. With the Night Halation preset applied.An ordinary corner, looking like a story. Photographed without a preset.
Night Halation applied to An ordinary corner, looking like a story
An ordinary corner, looking like a story
A 1970s classic car parked on a night street lit by neon shop signs, wet asphalt reflections, no people. With the Night Halation preset applied.A 1970s classic car parked on a night street lit by neon shop signs, wet asphalt reflections, no people. Photographed without a preset.
Night Halation applied to A 1970s classic car parked on a night street lit by neon shop signs, wet asphalt reflections, no people
A 1970s classic car parked on a night street lit by neon shop signs, wet asphalt reflections, no people

Explore every preset in this pack

10 presets · 4 scenes

Every preset in the pack is here, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 01Distance Lift
    Distance Lift applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Distance Lift applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Distance Lift applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Distance Lift applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Distance Lift. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  2. No. 02Rowan Berry
    Rowan Berry applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Rowan Berry applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Rowan Berry applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Rowan Berry applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Rowan Berry. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  3. No. 03Sensor Dust
    Sensor Dust applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Sensor Dust applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Sensor Dust applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Sensor Dust applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Sensor Dust. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  4. No. 04Gloss Panel
    Gloss Panel applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Gloss Panel applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Gloss Panel applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Gloss Panel applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Gloss Panel. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  5. No. 05Short Turn
    Short Turn applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Short Turn applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Short Turn applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Short Turn applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Short Turn. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  6. No. 06Photo Finish
    Photo Finish applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Photo Finish applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Photo Finish applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Photo Finish applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Photo Finish. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  7. No. 07Blemish Hunt
    Blemish Hunt applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Blemish Hunt applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Blemish Hunt applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Blemish Hunt applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Blemish Hunt. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  8. No. 08BW-12 Regatta Hard
    BW-12 Regatta Hard applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    BW-12 Regatta Hard applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    BW-12 Regatta Hard applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    BW-12 Regatta Hard applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is BW-12 Regatta Hard. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  9. No. 09Baryta Base
    Baryta Base applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Baryta Base applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Baryta Base applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Baryta Base applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Baryta Base. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  10. No. 10Ink Density
    Ink Density applied to Bike lean Before: Bike lean
    Bike lean
    Ink Density applied to Classic car neon Before: Classic car neon
    Classic car neon
    Ink Density applied to Harbour boats Before: Harbour boats
    Harbour boats
    Ink Density applied to Shoes pavement Before: Shoes pavement
    Shoes pavement

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Ink Density. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

Night Halation is 800-speed cinema colour negative shot after dark: streetlights that bloom red at the edge, tungsten that stays warm, shadows that go cyan, blacks that stay open and grainy. It is the diner, the petrol station, the parking lot, the hotel sign, the wet road, the window at night. The dialect is late, cinematic in mood but never a grade, warm lights against cool dark. Every pack says which lights, which dark and how much glow, and never confuses the halation look with a split-tone filter.

Every pack here is its own product with its own page, so you buy the one look you need, and a larger pack or the family collection is always one step up from it.

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how it works

  1. Step 1

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  2. Step 2

    Download

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  3. Step 3

    Import

    Add the presets to Lightroom in a minute.

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  4. Step 4

    Tap

    One tap on any photo. Every slider stays yours to adjust.

Yours to keep, for personal and client work. Please do not share the files. The license

Netzah Elad Topaz, the photographer who makes these presets

the maker

Why I Make These

I am Netzah Elad Topaz. I take photographs and I build software, and the two keep leading me back to the same problem. You were there. The light was doing something you will not see again. Then the photo comes back flat, and it is not what you were looking at.

Closing that gap is the whole job. Every preset here is built from Adobe defaults by hand, with a written note for what it should do to a picture, and it is judged on photographs before it ships. Nothing is a filter dropped on top of your work.

What I want is simple. You open a photo you almost gave up on, you tap once, and there it is: the day you remember, not the file your camera handed you. That is worth doing properly.

Questions, answered

Which Lightroom versions does this work with?

Lightroom Classic and Lightroom desktop via the XMP files, and the free Lightroom mobile app on iPhone and Android via the DNG files. Install once and the presets sync across your devices.

Is it safe on skin tones?

Not by design. This pack is for lights, roads, signs and skies; on a face it will do what it does to everything else. Use the portrait packs in this brand when a person is the subject.

How do I make it stronger or softer?

Use the Amount slider in Lightroom desktop and mobile to dial the whole preset up or down. To keep the colour split but reduce the glow, lower Highlights a few points; to keep the glow but calm the grain, lower Grain in Effects.

Do these work in the free Lightroom app?

Yes. Import the .xmp files in the free Lightroom app on iPhone or Android, no subscription needed. They also work in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom on desktop.

What exactly do I get?

All 10 presets from Cinema Night Car as .xmp files in an instant ZIP download. The link also lands in your email, and the purchase stays in your account so you can re-download any time.

How do I install them?

Two minutes: unzip, then import inside Lightroom. The step-by-step guide covers iPhone, Android, and desktop.

Can I use them for client work?

Yes. The single-user license covers personal and commercial photography. The one thing you can't do is share or resell the preset files themselves.

Can I tweak a preset after applying it?

Always. A preset is a starting point; every slider stays yours to adjust.

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Chrome Film applied to A fictional motorcyclist in a leather jacket stopped at a mountain pass overlook, bike in the foreground, hazy valley

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A fictional couple walking under one umbrella in falling snow on a European city street at dusk, shop windows glowing. With the Japan Film preset applied.A fictional couple walking under one umbrella in falling snow on a European city street at dusk, shop windows glowing. Photographed without a preset.
Japan Film applied to A fictional couple walking under one umbrella in falling snow on a European city street at dusk, shop windows glowing

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A fictional newborn asleep in a wicker basket on a cream blanket beside a window, soft daylight. With the Pastel Film preset applied.A fictional newborn asleep in a wicker basket on a cream blanket beside a window, soft daylight. Photographed without a preset.
Pastel Film applied to A fictional newborn asleep in a wicker basket on a cream blanket beside a window, soft daylight

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A fictional bride having her hair pinned by a window in a hotel room, white dress hanging behind, soft daylight. With the Warm Negative preset applied.A fictional bride having her hair pinned by a window in a hotel room, white dress hanging behind, soft daylight. Photographed without a preset.
Warm Negative applied to A fictional bride having her hair pinned by a window in a hotel room, white dress hanging behind, soft daylight

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