Through the late PS pseudo-Japanese system

The two-year Japanese department in the mainland is very popular, to tell the truth I also like the Japanese department, so spend a lot of time to think about this style, to say my understanding of the Japanese system.

One, what is the Japanese style

One of the most widely circulated Japanese system is the expression of mood, the transmission of atmosphere.

Japanese style from painting the wind should be emotional thorough, delicate, from the feeling should be quiet, simple, see the Japanese photos, the most intuitive feeling should be sometimes flow, sometimes solidified, the Sun's film will be very warm, slightly overcast some of the film will be as thorough as water.

Second, the creation of the Japanese photography time misunderstanding

Here, first of all, the view is only my own understanding, and not necessarily correct. Mistakes are summarized as follows:

1, the form is larger than the content

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See like the Japanese system, the first thought is to imitate its form, this is the biggest mistake. The essence of the Japanese system should still be its content-the beauty of the implicit, but not rigid.

2, the screen hair mist, thin

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The color of the Japanese photo looks very light, that is the result of exposure, so the color is hidden in the tone, it is elegant, not to reduce the saturation of the results. Japanese usually use film, so as to unbridled exposure. Japanese photos do have a lot of the picture is very white, there is no black, but there are a lot of colors to sink the Japanese system.

In addition, the screen fog is the result of natural, and the late addition of light can only be a very subtle way to modify, can not be used as the mainstream PS means, that level will lose a lot, with the real Japanese line, because the Japanese system attaches great importance to the level of transition.

3, think Lomo is the Japanese system

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Although the characters in the Japanese system seem to be relaxed and casual, they are not allowed to do so at random, or follow the basic principles of photography. The photographer is free and the audience is at a loss.

Three, the way of RGB channel to understand the nature behind the Japanese system

Analysis of the most typical brain impression of the Japanese system, should be a what kind of?—— most should be colored biased, some hazy. The impression is right, but it can often mislead people.

The color deviation of the Japanese system is actually very subtle, and most successful Japanese photographs do have color bias, but they are consistent with the color bias of the human eye, and the degree of bias is quite limited, and is not high, medium and low three of the tone are biased, generally speaking, the normal color, and often pay attention to the dark part of the color bias, and highlights of the color bias is the final need to adjust the step to improve the overall style of coordination. The normal color of the tone is essential to a photograph, which is, in the sense of the senses, a picture that is similar to the absence of color bias and the normalization of vision.

Four, the Japanese department attention to the details

In fact, the Japanese photos exposed a lot of high light details, and often very much focus on preserving the dark part of the level and color. If you look at some raw pictures carefully, you will find that the histogram is not white at both ends, but the RGB channel has dislocation, at this time the usual practice (not the Japanese system adjustment method) is to retain the high light level part, that is, can not be the highlight of the channel dislocation a knife cut (cut down on the white), which is also the majority of raw out of the purpose of the map.

RGB Channel

and the Japanese photo is the opposite, first by exposure, gamma, curve, contrast and other parameters, the histogram to the right, until the naked eye can clearly see the level and color of the dark, and then use the technique to make up for the white light, make up the method please see the end of the article, of course, there are other methods, The most commonly used is "color balance", can not overuse, excessive color over saturation overflow, there is no connotation.

The dark part of the color bias, the original origin is film. After playing the film scan, it is clear that the dark part of the film is not pure black, through a slightly too explosive way you can see the dark part of the film often with color, sometimes green, sometimes brownish red. This is the origin of the fog of the Japanese system.

Typical analysis of the histogram of the Japanese system

First look at the dark part is gradually slow transition rise (this histogram pattern description is likely to be the post-push histogram launched, try to pull a picture of the exposure, observe the histogram changes, you will find that is not the whole translation of the dark part of the small (show that the dark part of the composition is not much, painting the wind is a high profile), and the dark part of the three channels of the starting position is different, Description of the dark color bias; high light blue channel ahead of a lot, indicating that may be the sky blue, another blue channel is cut off, indicating that want to lower the color of the sky, to achieve a more peaceful overall tone.

In other words, it's best to film the Japanese department. Supplementary illustration Example One:

Staggered three channels is a visual increase in the level of a method (as for how to stagger, you can adjust the white balance or independent adjustment of the RGB channel curve). This method is often used in the sky over exposure and other scenes, RG channel down some, the explosion of the white part and the Blue Sky will form a perfect connection, and will not die white very ugly, this is like three channels hand-arm, staggered, evenly spread on the histogram, so visually is very tactful; , in which case there are too many levels and some places are not enough.

Make one of the simplest example demos:

The sky is too exposed to the original artwork

The adjustment of Curve r/g Channel

Effect diagram of smooth transition after processing

Through the curve of the r/g channel adjustment, (this with raw inside of the high light to restore the essence of the difference, high light restore is the original, this is actually minus the r/g channel, so that the green, blue has been prominent. The color is the channel dislocation, through this example may extrapolate, obtains many other level smooth transition. will be able to get a final view of the effect (note the Sky Transition).

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