Often I get messages asking about my post processing… so today I will talk about that.
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At first though… How do we SEE things?
We are wired the same… humans are attracted to certain areas of an image. Here in order:
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1) the brightest part of an image
2) areas of contrast
3) human faces
4) the center
5) saturated areas, while 🌞>❄
6) patterns
7) big things
8) whatever is in focus
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Here is what I do… Slide 2: a large oval mask with lower contrast, lower saturation, lower brightness… but all very subtle
Slide 3: a smaller Oval mask that covers the important parts of the picture, (2 if there are e.g. 2 dogs) with subtle adjustments for more sharpness, more contrast, more brightness
Slide 4: a tiny mask covering Ninjas face with more brightness, more sharpness, saturation and a slight dehaze (it pops colors, gives deep blacks)
Slide 5: now my new special trick that I use since the new @lightroom came out.
I use a luminance mask on the very dark parts of the subject and increase the darks, and sharpness a lot… this feels like drawing all contours with a black ink which pops them out. I really really love it.
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So basically I cover all the points above by leading the eye to Ninjas face. Started this method 2 years ago and basically finetuned it… made it more subtle and I really like how it does play out atm. I think it does make an unique look…
What I am trying to work on is a brave adjustment to colors to induce more mood to my shots… I envy this in other photos… it is hard to leave my „natural“ look. I feel comfortable there…
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Do you have any tricks for your post processing?
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@kito.and.remus Haha… yeah… It is always evolving… I’d like to do different stuff but am too lazy for the more sophiaticated stuff… hate to swap applications and try to get best out of lightroom
@ninja.vom.wolfstor I used to know photoshop (very little like 10ish years ago). I’ve started with Lightroom because I’ve heard it’s a fairly good place to start for basics.
@ldgreenbergaz A trick sounds like deception, but it is a technique… When You shoot in RAW the pictures are meant to be processed.
@kito.and.remus Lightroom is very powerful… just follow some tutorials to see what the sliders do… I use it for 4 years now and still learn.
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Sehr interessant deine Post production! Ich lege noch eine Maske mit extra Schärfe, Kontrast, leichter Aufhellung nur auf die Augen. Die letzten Hunde in meinem Feed sind gute Beispiele…