Lightroom skills: A minute to create a dream building wind light

Lightroom Skills: A minute to create a dream building scenery photo

In this paper, we illustrate the basic color rendering method of Lightroom by concrete examples, and show you how to exert the great potential of raw format image.

One, why should the late

Every time you send a photo, someone will ask, "Is this picture p?" Others said: I like the original, not later to reflect the level. In fact, ask photography should not be late, like asking people to go out to wear clothes, did not pass the later works is incomplete, no personality. The so-called original, it is just because you set the image format for JPG, you each take a photo, the camera is based on its own preset (such as: portrait mode, Landscape mode, night view mode, etc.) to help you do the later, and then the processing of photos compressed into JPG.

JPG and RAW format generation process

If you set the camera to Jpg+raw and shoot at the same time, you can see that JPG is different from raw. At the same time, the same parameter is taken out of the picture, the left side is not the camera processing raw format original piece, the right side is the camera processing after the compressed JPG picture.

Raw and JPG contrast

So, if you're going to start taking pictures, change the camera format to raw and take the initiative in your own hands.

Second, to get to the point

There are a number of software parsing RAW format, the mainstream Adobe acrlightroom, the optics Pro 9 of Freescale's capture One,dxo, where I use Lightroom to demonstrate how to tune a raw format photo.

The image below is a piece of raw format of the building at night, the effect should be ordinary visitors can often shoot out. If this is a JPG picture, then the end result may be so, there is no room to adjust. But if this is a raw, then congratulations, the time for the magic of decay!

RAW Format original piece

First analysis of the original film, raw format is characterized by the overall hue of the gray, saturation, contrast, sharpness, are not high, the screen looks gray, not transparent.

Original Slice Analysis

Adjust the train of thought.

Adjust the train of thought

First, increase the overall contrast, reduce the high light, enhance the shadow.

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