Late Photography: Japanese system backlighting Bright portrait color idea

Backlight shooting portrait often face a problem such as: The face is not exposed, if the early no way to fill the light or insufficient, through the late adjustment or there is a remedy, but to note that in the filming must use RAW format, in order to get more details in the later adjustment. This tutorial is mainly aimed at the backlighting and the Japanese fresh portrait of the late, to carry out the approximate ideas and color instructions.

The use of equipment is Nikon D610 and S35 lens, aperture is F1.6. This is the color after the LR in the front and back contrast diagram:

　First, the original film analysis

This group of photos was taken more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun's position is higher, the light is relatively hard. For this photo, the early shooting probably want to make the skirt of the transparent feeling, so select a side of the backlight position for composition shooting, the location of the sun as the Red arrow shows.

Because the face backlight, so using point metering (in fact, I always point metering, this completely to see a person's preferences) F1.6,a normal exposure to get NEF (that is, Nikon's RAW format) the original film.

The original film appears to have the following problems:

1. The whole of the person is dark

2. White balance Yellow

3. The screen is not transparent enough

　　Ii. adjusting basic parameters in LR

When filming, and sister communication after the determination of the tone for the Japanese and a little sugar syrup effect. After the introduction of the computer, according to the previous analysis of the original film in the existing problems to make targeted adjustments. The first step, adjust the white balance, exposure and other basic parameters. The specific parameters are as follows:

The original film in the color temperature of 4800, has previously analyzed the white balance of the yellow problem, and the combination of their own later thinking, adjusted to 4000, of course, can be slightly higher or slightly lower, this look a person likes. In order to make the main body exposure normal or brighter, the exposure added 1.5EV, due to the overall environmental background in the original film exposure is more serious, as shown in the position of several red squares, so will highlight-90, or all pull in the end there is no problem.

In order to show more details of the dark part such as hair, the shadow part of the exposure slightly increased. As for sharpness, brightness, saturation, these are not too much attention, reduce saturation because in the back of the color will be a little bit heavier, so in advance to reduce.

　　Third, adjust the curve

Curve as the most important step in the latter part, according to past experience, most of the Japanese photos have a little bit of gray, especially the dark part, how to get this gray? The answer is simply to pull the dark part slightly higher in the curve, and then there is no. In this photo, because the high light part of the original film (that is, the background of the sky part) is too outrageous, so in the curve also to the high light part of a little salvage, in fact, is futile, because he is dead white. Finally pulled out the bottom of a pile of excrement, oh wrong is the curve:

　Adjust the calibration of camera

In the later period, I did not make adjustments to the RGB channel. Because of personal habits, most of the time only in the late film to move RGB. Next we skip the HSL to adjust the parameters in the camera calibration:

In the color of the Japanese film, most of the red is not red, but partial redness, unbelief of friends can see a number of Japanese sugar or film also good photos, is generally the case.

The green hue is pulled towards the Greens to make the skin look even more pink. In fact, the resulting skin color is often contrary to reality, but there is no way, as a photo of your first task is to meet the requirements of sister.

The blue color is pulled to the left to make the picture as a whole blue, to create this particular effect.

　Five, in the HSL for color fine-tuning

After the adjustment is completed, you will find color, skirts and other places too heavy taste, this time we return to HSL here for color fine-tuning.

Only the saturation of red, orange, light green and blue is adjusted, and all the adjustments are saturated to get the correct skin tone and other colors.

To this step the overall photo effect has been basically determined, as long as in PS, and then slightly liquefied, grinding, sharpening, it will be the final piece.

The above is the entire content of this tutorial, this is my first time to write a tutorial, if there is wrong or there is a problem, please light spray. Also welcome to pay attention to my Sina Weibo @sailoer, in the micro-blog will not periodically release some of the late original film and a piece of preset.

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