Scenery Photography PS later color palette course Dam Taoshan Lake Mist

The dam has always been a paradise for photography lovers. Broad grasslands, flocks of cattle and sheep, large birch, become the photographer's camera in the breathtaking picture.

Early in the morning, the stars in the sky Blink, the dam on the Red Hill in the small town is already a busy, a group of photographic enthusiasts, draped in the stars, carrying equipment, open the Jeep, follow the guide,

into a shooting point, with the rising sun, the crisp shutter sound into one. The morning on the dam is always exciting.

The film was taken at Taoshan Lake on the dam in late September. The early autumn of the dam on the sudden cold weather, so in the morning of the lake formed a floating thin clouds, such as the veil dancing, intoxicating.

But by the time of light and time limit, the overall tone of the film is Gray, the whole film is not lively.

Effect Chart:

Original:

The first step is to adjust the halftone

Create a level adjustment layer. In the color Level panel that pops up, move the White field slider of the input level to the starting point on the right by using the histogram. Move the Black field slider on the left to the left start point of the histogram.

Now the overall tone of the film is normal, click the Close button to exit.

The second step is to emphasize the early morning warm tones

In the morning, in the sunrise place is warm, and these tones are not clear enough now, need to emphasize. Then create a hue/saturation adjustment layer, open the hue/saturation panel,

The saturation of the slider to the right to move to improve the color saturation, after the east of the mountain warm has been stressed, twilight twilight effect has. Pleased to press the "close" button to exit.

After emphasizing the warm hue to improve the saturation of color, not only the warm colors of the oriental sky have been strengthened, but also the cool tones of the lake floating in the thin cloud are strengthened, which makes it seem more jump, with the above

The warm tones are in conflict and should be weakened. You can use different methods to reduce the saturation of cool colors, such as directly reducing the saturation of cyan in the image. This is done by masking the mask.

Now still in the mask operation state, select the Gradient tool in the toolbox, set the foreground color to white, background color black, pull the gradient line right in the middle of the image, and the warm tones of the upper part of the image are preserved,

The lower part of the cold color gradually obscured by the mask.

At the first sight of the morning mist of Taoshan Lake, it was attracted, touched and intoxicated by it. In fact, now this film from the exposure parameters of the basic normal, but the total feeling that the film does not look excited.

Later adjustment of the idea is to make the color beautiful, red glow and the Blue morning mist to give people a dream of reverie.

Third Step fine adjustment contrast

The overall tone of the film is normal, but the feeling of the thin cloud floating on the lake is weak, lack of vivid, need fine adjustment contrast to solve.

Create a curve adjustment layer that creates 3 control points on the curve according to the highlights of the sky, the middle point of the thin cloud, and the dark points of the bushes. The brightness of the two points is increased by moving the highlights and the middle points up appropriately.

The dark point to move properly downward, pressure dark trees of the tone, see the image of the whole contrast improved, floating clouds have a dynamic. Pleased to press the "close" button to exit.

The sky is too bright. It is still in the mask operation state, the brush is selected in the toolbox, the foreground color is black, and the sky and the distant mountain are restored to the front in the sky and the mountains.

If the sky is darker, it may be more in line with the mood of Twilight Twilight.

Then create a curve adjustment layer specifically designed to adjust the sky. According to the bright spot of the sky, create a control point on the curve, press down on the point, the sky is dark, the effect of the twilight is satisfied,

Click the Close button to exit.

When the sky is pressed, the ground is also darkened and needs to be restored.

Select the brush in the toolbox, the foreground color is black, and the appropriate brush diameter and hardness parameters are set in the options bar above. At first, the far mountain is blotted out, the distant mountain restores the original tone and the level.

Then in accordance with the direction of cloud fluttering carefully smear the past, the middle part of the cloud also restored the original tone, the bottom of the cloud to make it darker, conducive to highlighting the middle part of the bright cloud effect.

The total feeling in the middle of the cloud completely restored to the previous light and some of the past, and the pressure is somewhat dull, should be between the two. Select the edit Fade command,

Move the slider appropriately to the left in the pop-up fade window, which will weaken the strength just applied. See the effect of the cloud satisfied, click the "OK" button to exit.

Doing this is equivalent to using gray masking mask, or the equivalent of masking the mask in black to reduce the brush opacity, but with the fading method easier to control, more flexible.

After the adjustment of the film, more obvious Taoshan Lake morning mist that fairy tale of the mood, Oriental to Xiao, floating fog light diffuse, distant mountains to wake up, the tree with the cloud line, Fairyland general feeling.

Dam in the photographic circle has a high reputation, it not only attracts the photographers around Beijing, but also attracted the interest of southern photographers, and even a group of photographers from Hong Kong and Macao to visit.

The photographers on the dam came from far apart, corners. On the dam, many photographers were intoxicated and the dream of many photographers was achieved. However, the dam is only suitable for photography and is not suitable for general tourism.

This digest is from the people's post and Telecommunications press "old postman Digital photo processing Technique Scenery Article (2nd edition)" a book

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