How to bring up the style photos of foreign photographers in the later period?

How to bring up the style photos of foreign photographers in the later period?

This paper introduces European and American photography in detail.

Let's review the main points I mentioned earlier:

One: The colors are usually bright and the contrast is high. Contrary to Japanese photography, European and American photography usually has a high color saturation and gives people a gorgeous feeling, which may be related to the extroverted, unrestrained and free personality of Europeans and Americans. They prefer to express themselves through colors, because colors are very aggressive. Second, pay attention to human existence. In European and American photography, there is often a person in the picture, whether this person is necessary or not. Three: low brightness. Different from Japanese photography, the brightness of European and American photography is usually low, and the whole picture feels slightly depressed and full of a melancholy atmosphere. Four: I like to set off the atmosphere through the environment. Unlike Japanese photography, which likes to set off the atmosphere through still life, European and American photography prefers to set off the atmosphere through the big environment, such as abandoned houses, sunset, grassland and sea. Five: It smells like film. European and American photography has a little film flavor, giving people an old feeling. Let's take a look at some photos first:

When you see these photos, your first impression should be European and American styles.

You can see many similar styles by opening instagram.

Another example is the website unsplash: UNSPLASH | free high-resolution photos.

These are very typical European and American styles.

So, what should we do in the later period of European and American style?

Most people rely on filters when they are in Europe and America. I will share this knowledge with you today, so that you can quickly master the later period of European and American styles.

Note: The writing of this article has in-depth communication with our team's photographers in the United States, so its vision will be more localized and more in line with the essence of European and American styles. But its disadvantage is that the software interface is in English, which will not affect everyone's reading.

Several elements of this later stage are:

1, reduce the gamma value. 2. Eliminate pure black. 3. Pull the curve. 4. Add/convert colors. 5. Improve the natural saturation. 6. add black corners.

For example: note: I will take the fiery retouching APP as an example to illustrate that PS and LR are applicable at the same time.

We open the original picture:

1, reduce the gamma value (brightness value): The main purpose of this step is to reduce the brightness of the picture. But why don't we use curves or exposure tools? In a word, the gamma value changes more sharply, which is more in line with our requirements.

The specific reason can be referred to: how to repair a picture with seriously damaged details.

2. Drawing a curve This curve is very complicated. One is to improve the contrast and enhance the color of the picture. The other is to eliminate pure black and make the picture feel like film.

3. Adjust the color We used a red darkening curve here to add cyan to the picture.

After these three steps, our effect is:

Another example is:

Open the original image: 1. Let's adjust the color of the picture first.

European and American colors prefer unnatural colors, such as changing green to yellow and cyan to purple. In the process of plant adjustment, we can mainly adjust green and yellow. HSL is the abbreviation of hue, saturation and lightness.

Hue: It is to change one color into another. Saturation: It is the brightness of the color. Brightness: It is the brightness of the color.

Generally speaking, when we are in the later stage of European and American Department, we need to reduce saturation and lightness to create a calm picture atmosphere.

2, improve the natural saturation

Natural saturation is especially suitable for simulating film color, even if its value is adjusted to the maximum, it will not produce abnormal color phenomenon.

Step 3 reduce the gamma value

Step 4 use curves

Step 5 polish it again

There is no prescribed mode, you can add your favorite color to the picture. European and American styles tend to be calm colors, not too bright.

The processing results are as follows:

Some people may ask: I didn't pretend to be a rough retoucher, so what should I do?

As mentioned earlier, PS and LR can achieve the above steps.

For example:

Through these two examples, I believe you can better grasp its core elements.

Let me show you two pictures. Let's practice, shall we The top of the contrast effect diagram is treated in this way.