PS synthesis to create beautiful stars

first, early shooting

This film was taken 7:30 the night of August 31, we can see from the photos, this one is still a blue moment photographed, suddenly found himself as if a lot of favorite photos are shooting at this time, is really the best moment, this should be why can make a lot of people like photography, Carrying the machine and waiting until it gets dark?

The golden glow of the sun in the horizon looming, with the blue sky perfect phase, warm and cold contrast gives a magnificent fantasy wonderful, the charm of the blue moment in here to show the hearty.

Such a hue, such a color, is not exactly what I and each person photographers have been pursuing?

The shooting of the time using the 18MM super wide-angle, showing more magnificent water and sky, increase the impact of the screen.

What does that say? either wide or long, sometimes a simple scene, with a super wide angle, will let you see a different feeling.

The composition of the main TV tower I will use the three-point method placed in the upper-right corner, and the horizontal line probably in the film's three One-third, so that no clouds to increase the level of the sky cut off, can also let the water's reflection completely revealed.

As long as you have a tripod and shoot without worrying about the shutter speed, I will set the ISO to the lowest 100 to ensure the best quality and minimum noise.

Here I would like to say sorry to you, the first two times in the same place to write a bit wrong, the first couple of films I have set the aperture in the F22, in fact, the smallest aperture is not the best shot imaging quality, generally speaking, the best imaging quality should be between the F8-F16, And I set the minimum aperture should be to get a slower shutter speed (in fact, you should use a light reduction mirror calendering, instead of using the smallest shutter, but I am really shy in the bag, there is no good quality of the light, but also do not want to use the poor lens to reduce the sharpness of the screen, had to use the smallest shutter, better than nothing.

But I still have no problem with this one. F13 aperture to bring the prospects and background are clear sharp, 20s long slow door let me get a flat surface of the water, reflection of the reflection is also so beautiful, the overall film gives a quiet and soothing feeling, as if in the noisy city to get a moment of tranquility, This is what I want to express.

Reminder: Use raw shooting

Raw is intended to be "unprocessed." Can be understood as: RAW image is CMOS or CCD image sensor will capture the light source signal into the original data signal. Raw file is a record of the digital camera sensor raw information, while recording the camera produced by the original data (Metadata, such as ISO settings, shutter speed, aperture value, white balance, etc.) files. Raw is an unprocessed, uncompressed format that can be conceptualized as "raw image-coded data" or more vividly known as "digital negatives."

Or that sentence, unless it is a special request, or you must use RAW format to shoot!

Ii. post-adjustment

1, later use PS for RAW processing software: "Camera Raw"

According to my habit, first adjusted the "natural saturation: +68", after the promotion of more comfortable color, the sun's afterglow is more obvious, warm and cold contrast strong.

2, and then I adjusted the "contrast +13" to enhance this contrast. Contrast enhancement is actually a very good way to increase the visual effect of the photo, but the adjustment needs to master a scale, the higher the contrast may make the impact of the photo more powerful, but also inevitably bring the details of the loss, the specific values need to be based on the feeling you want to adjust.

3, then I adjusted the "shadow +100", you can see the original dark surface of the water, immediately back to the color and details, so that the entire picture exposure accuracy, but also brought a slight HDR effect, enhanced the interest of the screen.

4, after the adjustment of the above, found that the sky and the TV tower has some slight exposure, so adjust the "high light-51", alone to reduce the exposure of the high light area, find the missing details.

5, the details are found back, but the sky has some hair ash, so it increased the "white +35", strengthening the contrast of the sky part.

6, found that the overall picture is still some dark, especially the dark part of the lack of detail, such as the area of the trees and high-rise areas, and then adjusted the "black +69", so that the overall picture of the screen, the dark part of the details.

7, in order to add some interesting and dramatic effect to the screen, I adjusted the "Hue +9", the film slightly added some purple, rendering the feeling of quiet night.

8, so far, "Camera Raw" part of the adjustment completed, into the PS page continue to adjust.

First open the curve, observe the histogram, found that the right side of the high light section and no details, then remove the blank area, while slightly lower the gray section, improve the overall texture. Remove no details of the high light, but also add to the screen without details of the loss of comparison, very useful. The whole process is later adjusted.

Third, late synthesis

We often say later, I also have been to share the later stages of the process and experience, then what is the late?

We say later, in fact, most of the time now refers to the "digital later", the word has been accompanied by photography, before, now there, the future will not disappear.

In the previous film period, this later was called the "darkroom", a good film work, perhaps before you see it, has gone through the "darkroom" countless later processing, such as local highlighting, shading, stacking, thickening, thinning, coloring, cutting, zoom machine shift axis correction perspective distortion, and now the latter is only more convenient, Only one computer, several software can be solved.

I always like a word, photography is the pursuit of the world in your eyes.

Use photos to express your words, and to show others that you are at the same time, photography and later is also a way to find your inner self.

Photography is an art, it is beyond doubt, and art is important to show your emotions, show what you need to express, and the latter is the key to all of this.

As an artist, go to photography and express your feelings instead of taking pictures with your camera. Photos and photography are not two as simple as that.

Do not always cling to a real, shooting is not a news documentary, do not need to adhere to any form, not to adhere to the simple truth.

I often say a word, it should be one of my principles, I will not easily be a piece of the original film to others, on the one hand, is not respect for the people, on the one hand is not respect for their films.

Seriously, a person who will only press the shutter and not later, can never be counted as a real photographer. (Some of the ideas come from the article "Don't take it too seriously.") The individual said there are some subjective, not enough patience to read this article readers, also should be interested in the latter photographer?

Although the latter important, but more important is your early shooting, a picture of good or bad, more is your early stage. A good later stage will make your photo sublime, but you won't be able to make a bad picture of a piece of cake. Well, the other words don't say more, let's go on ~

Each of my later creative photos, in fact, is not just for the sake of good-looking and to do, as I said, more is to express the heart of the world's longing, to express their ' eyes in the world ', even if the world is only your own.

For example, this film is also, this film is taken early, and repair this is after the thing, it will coincide with the rare ' super moon ', I was also very excited, doing all kinds of preparation, to buy a beautiful super moon, but nature most like to play jokes on us, just big 25% The moon is difficult to meet my expectations of the Super moon, but also because of this, let me feel white prepared for a long time (mainly borrowed 28-300 of this tyrants lens but did not take out the thing to shoot!).

And then in the boredom of the film, suddenly saw this one, the heart of a move, this is obviously what I look forward to the super moon photos, whether it is the future, hue, light ... are so in line with my requirements, and it is only missing a round of the moon! So, this "super moon" was born.

Do super moon naturally need a picture of Super moon, I found a more satisfied with the moon material.

I found that a lot of students just learn photography, like the moon ' shot ' A, but because the law, the Moon is always unsatisfactory, in fact, shooting the moon is very simple, only need to master a few elements.

The first is the focal length, the most important thing to shoot the moon is focal length, 200MM is basic, 300mm is guaranteed, 400mm is the best, if you have 500mm or even 600mm, then tyrants let's be friends! (Half-width machine use 135mm of the set head to shoot the moon is no problem.) )

Focus using manual focus or automatic single point focus, preferably with the center of focus, the focus is generally the most accurate. The aperture is set between the f5.6-f16 and the small circle can get a clear and sharp image.

Shutter, you can use point metering to the moon metering, shooting the moon does not need to slow the door, although the sky is very dark, but the moon light is very bright, slow door will let the moon explode. Master these points, and then frame a pair of tripod, go to the moon mercilessly ' photo '! Category:

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