The magic skill in the later period of landscape photography-gray mask

As a late high-order adjustment technology, gray mask is an indispensable means in Photoshop fine retouching.

What is a grayscale mask?

We have to start with the famous black and white master ansel adams.

Ansel Adams

"You don't just take pictures with a camera. What you bring into photography is all the photos you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard and the people you have loved. "

-ansel adams Xu Chungang translation.

Ansel adams (1902- 1984) is one of the greatest photographers in the history of photography. As a pure landscape master, his theory of image and photography is very groundbreaking; As a popular artist, his photo collection has sold millions of copies. He is a bit like Robert Frost in appreciating elegance and vulgarity.

Adams is famous for his pure landscape photos. Although some people criticize the world for being so chaotic, he is patting stones. However, his pursuit of image visibility and the ultimate performance of natural landscape have reached a very high level.

Ansel Adams

Adams is famous in history not only because of his increasingly expensive photos, but also because of his epoch-making photography theory "area exposure method" He divided the hue of black-and-white photos into 10 zones, from zone 0 (the blackest displayed on photographic paper) to zone 10 (the white of photographic paper itself). This 10 area (note that 0- 10 is actually divided into 1 1 area; Excluding the darkest and whitest areas that can't display details, it is strictly divided into three areas: dark color area, middle color area and bright color area. They develop differently due to different light. Through photometry and pre-judgment, and then through the careful treatment of the darkroom in the later period, things are presented most vividly and clearly, so as to achieve the scientific accuracy of photography.

With the development of digital photography, in 2006, Tony Kuyper developed this gray mask technology based on Adams' regional exposure method, standing on the shoulders of giants. The principle is the same, and all operations are divided into regions.

What I shared today is the comprehensive teaching course of the artifact of landscape photography-gray mask. Through the study of this course, you will fully master how to use gray mask in the later stage of landscape photography!

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