Russian photographer color cheats later to create dream backlight

After a long time in foreign photography Pictures website Bubble chart, photography enthusiasts Kato Toto (micro-blog @ Saisi Todo) found that from Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European photographers have their own style of picture color. Different from the natural saturated bright colors of photographers in Europe and America, pictures of photographers from Eastern Europe, with a unique sense of oil painting, clear cold background, implicit and introverted character expression. The whole style presents a kind of tranquil precipitate feeling, the feel is not clear the way unknown.

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There's nothing to do. Stroll to a Russian photographic electronic magazine website (PHOTOCASA), found two late color palette tutorial, the author is Tatiana Mertsalova. Relying on the powerful Google Translate tool, I saw a ballpark figure. The picture moved over, share to everybody, also record, earnest study.

The original artwork opens in the LIGHTROOM5 to fine-tune

1, the original image opened in the LIGHTROOM5, in addition to the high light, shadow, white color, black color gradient to do a slight adjustment, slightly reduce the overall saturation.

Make adjustments to Hue

2, adjust the color, in the HSL mode, the hue adjustment, red-44, orange-22, green +92.

Increase the saturation of each color

Increase the saturation of each color, mainly red, orange, yellow, green.

3, in the "camera calibration", change the red color, green primary color hue, reduce the saturation of blue hue, color balance partial cyan.

Change hue in camera calibration

Photoshop Modifies facial flaws

4, import Photoshop, facial defects to do cosmetic.

The layer adjustment curve of the building mask layout

5, for the face brighter, create a mask layer, tune curve or something.

Make HDR adjustments in the plugin

6, with HDR Efex PRO2 This plug-in, in the plug-in to do HDR adjustment.

7, create a fill layer, from #d5b563# color to #542b0c# color pull a gradient, make it into the sun, bright tones. and use the Mask pen to brush out the desired part.

Create a fill layer pull gradient

Experience: Personally I think this step is the most important and interesting, not quite understand the Russian photographer's work, the background color how to become this kind of yellow and warm and dreamy feeling, although "optional color + mask" tools such as the background color, but this direct brush a layer of color on the local smear way, more dreamy, More full-bodied.

PS. The original text of this passage is: создаюновыйслой-заливкусцветамиd5b563, 542b0cврежимеhard light,получаетсятеплыйсолнечныйоттенок. (Totally ignorant!!! So I do not know where the layer mode should be selected, which Russian-language comrades can supplement themselves

New curve layer overall dimming

8, a new graph layer, the whole to the darkened. The rich color came out. Trim off excess hair and cut properly.

Continue to pull the curve

9, continue to pull the curve, see the right curve layer.

Liquefaction

10, liquefaction, all kinds of liquefaction.

11, seal the merge layer, scale picture size.

Stamping Merge Layers

Make more space

12, rectangular tool, the upper part of the model again ctrl+c,ctrl+v, so that the top has more space. Bingo!

[Tutorial author]татьянамерцалова, English should be Tatiana Mertsalova

This is the finished product diagram. Really still very admire the photographer, a originally prosaic photos, obstinately rely on the color of the super high grasp, become like a dream.

I have chosen some of the works from the photographer's portfolio that are similar to this one, and I suspect that these later colors should have the same idea.

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