How to bring up fresh Japanese photos

As mentioned earlier, you must consider the composition of your picture and the color combination in the early stage of shooting. Make the picture simple and clean, and it won't be so hard in the later stage. Let's show you the color mixing process of a fresh still life.

Case presentation

The original film is slightly gray, and the color is not fresh enough. In terms of composition, the sky occupies a large proportion. The color of the sky is a bit bluish and purple, and the color of the building in the Hpusn middle is mainly white. It is in line with the characteristics of clean pictures and cooler and brighter colors. Therefore, the main coloring idea of ​​this film is to brighten the picture, and then adjust the color of the sky. Reduce the purple component of the sky and make it bias towards cyan.

First turn on LR and adjust the basic parameters. Appropriately increase the exposure, reduce the highlights and brighten the bright areas of the photo to find more details in the picture.

After the previous step, the screen looks a bit gray. So a "s"-shaped curve is drawn on the curve to enhance the contrast of the picture.

When adjusting, you do not blindly adjust all the parameters, you need to observe which colors are composed of the picture. Here are mainly yellow, orange, green,Hpusn and blue. The yellow and orange colors mainly control the trees in front, and the blue mainly controls the color of the sky, so I only adjusted for these colors.

The picture looked a bit dark yellow after being brightened in the previous step, so I moved orange in the hue. The color of the trees is shifted to green. The blue that controls the sky is shifted a bit to cyan.

Reduced the saturation of green, and the saturation of blue.

The bright orange and yellow are the trees in front.

Because the original film is dark, noise will appear after the overall brightening. This step can eliminate some of the noise and make the original film look cleaner.

Tick ​​to delete chromatic aberration and enable profile correction. Most of the time, I will check these two, which can correct the vignetting problem around the picture caused by the lens.

Camera calibration: After the above steps of adjustment, the general feeling is there, but the plants in front are still a bit withered, so I adjusted the hue of the green primary color to make it more green. The last thing is to increase the saturation of the blue primary color, enhance the overall color sense, and make the picture transparent.

final effect

Something to say
The above is all the content shared this time. For still photography, the early color selection is very important. This requires you to accumulate more shots or watch more excellent works. For me, I am easily influenced by others. Some of my previous works tended to be simple and clean, and now I slowly try this blue and dark effect. It’s not about how much you’ve improved your aesthetics, but when you look at many different photographers’ photos, you want to try different styles.

When studying in the early stage, you must take more shots and watch more. Don't be limited to the same style. This is more conducive to your growth. I haven't found the final style myself, and I keep trying. Finally, I hope you can all take good-looking photos.