Photos at night in a room and with natural light

[sports_brah]

Probably the most stupid question postulated in this forum, but was wondering if someone could enlighten me.

Basically when I take a photo in my room at night it looks far warmer and more pleasant than in daylight.

Is it possible to emulate this in daylight or will I have to wait til night.

I'm only using a Nexus 4 camera, so I'm guessing I'll be limited? I've got a D5100 somewhere at home, but that's a fair distance away!

Thanks

 

[Derek W]

it'll be the light from your room lights rather than the natural light coming in from the window. if you use the tungston (i think) setting on your camera as the white balance it'll give a warmer feel to the shot. Either that or you can alter the white balance in programs such as lightroom.

EDIT

Just checked in LR and the tungston setting makes a daylight shot a lot bluer than the original.

 

[Scougar]

Yup... did that the other day, forgot to switch from tungstun setting and got a horrible outdoor shot in blue hue.

Just do post processing on the picture, and use the white balance settings on the phone as best you can.

 

[Nexus]

Yeah, as pointed out above, you aren't dealing with natural light if its night.... unless its a full moon, but thats not really what is referred to when talking about 'natural light'.

Another way of doing things in camera is using gold reflectors which add warmth. You can also gel flashes using something like colour temperature orange, or go more extreme.

Ultimately all that is a bit much if you are just using a phone camera though.

 

[sports_brah]

Thank you all, seems very complicated.

In the end I waited til night time

though I am going to investigate further as I do enjoy lots of peoples photography on here.