How to add freehand smoke to flowers in later period

In flower photography, if you add a wisp of white smoke lingering, will not get rid of the level of the screen, so that the picture to foil more than a hint of freehand brushwork? With the work of "Jade Pear soul" as an example, the author flower Less in this for how to float on the pear "incense soul a wisp of" smoke techniques to explain, special will organize this process, and many enthusiastic blog friends exchange and sharing.

Inspired by the theme of spring, flowers in full bloom, provoked the photographer itch. But Shanhua many people, the site is also a variety of flowers blossom, all kinds of tricks, artistic conception bead Jade in front, again difficult to break through.

More realistic flower photography, the screen slightly dull

With just a flick of the finger, pollen scattered in the pine cones.

And in a flower on the way, the companion accidentally met is pollination period of pine cones, just a flick of the fingers, the pine cones will drift out pollen scattered, the screen is very attractive. Can not help but let a person brainwave, if these scattered pollen transferred to the spring rain in the beautiful pear above, is not better? To pull the picture slightly know me one or two, the heart has a grasp of the pear in front of "fragrance floating in the sky." So began two sets of photography, a group of pear, a group of pollen, later will be two groups of synthesis.

First, the early shooting skills

First determine the idea of a good work: the smoke out, and then synthesized into the flower flower Corolla. And the important condition of the drawing is the contrast between the main body and the background the greater the better, such as the pine pollen here is white, then the best background is black. So the choice of a few trees in the roadside pine, using black tar road to do the background, it is very beneficial to pull the map later.

Try a variety of diffuse forms of filming

Let the friend help, with the finger light the pine nut, because the pollen sprinkles only in the fingertips, the time is extremely fast, to shoot the dynamic object, the burst technique is a very interesting practice. Take a few more groups, in preparation for different flower-like choice, to avoid the smoke shape monotonous, repeat.

Ii. post-processing skills

1. The first step

Increase the contrast of pollen and background with color bands or other tools

First copy the layer in PS, use the color level or other tools to increase the contrast between pollen and background, the greater the contrast, will be the more clear outline of the object, the smaller the contrast, the more blurred the outline of the object, which should be specific to the specific requirements. Here, I choose the big contrast.

2. Step Two

Select Image-Adjust-go color

Select "Image-adjust-go color", the pattern into black and white, increase the contrast, and the white part of the future is to be plucked out of the part.

3. Step Three

Copy a "Blue copy"

Select channel, and pull the blue layer down to the bottom right corner copy layer identification and copy the blue copy.

4. Step Fourth

The white part is pulled out

The left mouse button press "Blue Copy", while holding down the CTRL and ALT keys, the white part was pulled out.

5. Step Fifth

To move a layer to a color layer

Move the layer to a colored layer and copy the part that is being pulled out.

6. Step Sixth

And then the extracted pine pollen to copy to the picture above the pear.

Pull out the pine pollen and copy it to the pear picture.

7. Step Seventh

"Edit-transform-rotate or deform" method to adjust the shape of pollen

The pollen is then matched to the shape of the Corolla by means of "edit-transform-rotate or deform".

8. Step VIII

Pollen shapes cater to pear blossoms when changing pollen shape

Change the shape of the pollen, pay attention to let the pollen shape to cater to the flower crown, as if it is from the pear itself emitted out. Then use an eraser to erase the unnecessary details next to the pollen, pay attention to the binding between the pollen and the corolla, and adjust the transparency of the eraser. The process of processing the test of each person on the shape of flowers and the whole picture of the mood of the grasp, these are different from each person, let people fully realize that PS is indeed a "physical life."

9. Step Nineth

Bleaching treatment of pollen

Finally, bleaching of the pollen to reflect the white and flawless pear. In this way, a picture of the pear flower floating out of the spring is finished.

Thoughts after the photo

Here leads to a topic, a lot of friends ask me, your shooting is the first topic or content? For photography, is the content important, or the method is important? It's a long-standing problem, and we have been arguing about it.

I remember that when I was in high school, I learned dialectics, which is the form of content decision, the form influence content. So whenever, the content is the main. I met the pear and pine pollen, so I thought of the idea of a pear-scented soul. If all the prior design is not no, but the effect is not likely to get the wish, and the process is far from random smart so fun, this is my point of view. I think this is also the charm of photography, it is the photographer and life between a random game and interaction.

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