Post-processing of HDR portrait

Artwork vs Effect Chart

Because it is travel so many photos are relatively random shooting, capturing more, so in the foreseeable premise of the camera will remain on the state, while the exposure value in advance, the use of NEF format.

Scenery, documentary film I will most of the first use LR to preprocess, 70% to achieve the effect I want!

Cropping photos

The first step is to cut the photo, because the use of the fixed focus of the late capture of the photo to two times the composition of this better prominent subject.

Observe histogram

And then look at the histogram, and this picture is not exposed. So let's tweak the exposure a little bit.

After the adjustment, you can see the picture being promoted.

Set the direction of adjustment.

Next I will consider this film to go in the direction of high contrast HDR, tonal nostalgic point, warm.

Increase contrast of color temperature

The first step is to set the color temperature, color temperature to the direction of the warm, while improving some contrast.

Adjust sharpness

This step is very important, is the adjustment of clarity, in the process of adjustment you can see that there is a similar effect of HDR, then the embryonic form has been out.

Adjust the light and dark parts

But we do not see the dark details of the picture has not been very good performance, so we began to adjust the light and dark parts, after the adjustment, we can be seen the effect of the image HDR more highlighted, the screen also reached the final effect of 70%.

Finally, add some dark corners and a sense of the particles, and then dump the pictures and open them in Photoshop.

Add some dark angle and a sense of particle

Develop a good habit of duplicating layers.

Copy Layers

Use the plugin to render the picture HDR (color efex This plugin is quite practical and I think 90% of the photographers have this plugin in Photoshop).

For HDR Rendering

Create a new curve to darken the picture.

To darken a picture

In the mask to wipe out the characters, because I just want to put the environment down, highlighting the characters so that the characters wiped out.

Wipe out the characters in the mask.

New hue saturation, reduce total saturation, but keep yellow (with the mask Yellow wipe out), yellow in the entire screen play a balanced role, but also by preserving the yellow saturation elevation screen contrast.

Enhance the contrast of the picture

Sharpen, plus logo

The final stamping layer to sharpen the picture, plus the logo to wrap!!!