Autumn photos

Autumn is an unforgettable season, just like a lyric says: the slowly falling maple leaves are like missing.

Autumn is the most colorful season of the year, and nature is like a magical palette, giving it a colorful side.

Autumn is really beautiful, but ......

In some places in the south of China, autumn, as if forgotten, is still tree-lined!

Friends in the north discuss how beautiful autumn is every day. Take a good photo and take a photo at will. I can't get to the point at this time!

In order to save the situation, I thought, otherwise, something special: artificial autumn?

Seeing this, I believe many friends will question, can it still be faked in autumn? That will definitely work! Today's article will teach you how to create the most beautiful autumn through a mobile phone.

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Understand the seasonal characteristics

Autumn is deeply loved by everyone, because at this time, you can feel the colorful leaves and the golden beauty of the earth!

This is also about autumn, and everyone is most impressed!

As the main color of autumn-golden yellow, its appearance is like a symbol of harvest and elegance. It can also be seen in many photos. As a special color power, it warms people's hearts.

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About shooting skills

Best shooting time

The best time to shoot autumn, like in our daily photography, is morning and evening, because in these two periods, the light is softer, it is easier to shoot, and it can shoot a very dreamy feeling.

The sunset in autumn is always so beautiful! Because at sunset in the evening, the sky is like a dreamy golden yellow, and the breath of autumn begins to thicken.

As time went on, Bruce appeared at all times! The picture of alternating cold and warm is more beautiful and charming.

Best subject to shoot

A leaf falls to know the autumn, perhaps this is the best portrayal of autumn.

If you want to highlight autumn well, those golden leaves are the best theme you can't miss. Whether hanging high on the tree or falling on the ground, golden leaves can always give autumn the most poetic side.

Besides fallen leaves, you can also find a strong autumn breath in the yellow jungle.

Skilled dry goods

When we know the subject matter suitable for shooting, then we will share some dry goods in skills with you.

The back is also good-looking: in autumn, how can we lack good-looking punch photos? But some friends are easy to be embarrassed in front of the camera, or they are not good at expression management. In this case, we might as well try not to show our faces-the back.

And the back is more mysterious!

Of course, when shooting the back, you can let the characters add some action elements appropriately, which can greatly increase the fluidity of the picture.

It is also a good choice to stride forward and feel comfortable.

Mirror reflection: In Shui Bo after the rain, the calm lake surface or some glass surfaces can reflect the photographed object through mirror reflection, forming another illusory space, and turning the ordinary and plain scene into a vivid and interesting picture.

Low-angle symmetrical composition makes the picture more stable.

Color of light and shadow: Maybe many people think that recording the beautiful side of this autumn needs to be in the golden jungle of mountains, but in the eyes of many southern friends, this is too extravagant, haha.

Therefore, in our daily life, as long as we pay close attention to observation, we can still find elements about that autumn.

The combination of light and color is very lively in autumn.

Look up, light and shadow mottled picture, don't have a feeling.

These are moments that can be seen everywhere in ordinary life. When you observe with your heart, beauty is not far from you.

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Later retouching skills

Confuse a fake with the real thing.

In fact, it is mentioned at the beginning of the article that in most parts of the south, most of the vegetation seen in autumn is still green, and they are not aware of the existence of autumn.

At this time, we can grasp the characteristics of autumn, and then use the later retouching skills to modify and change. In fact, we can fake a charming autumn, hee hee.

Features: golden yellow element tone

How do green leaves turn yellow? This is actually one of the most important tools: HSL.

Its function is to adjust the color by region, and also to change hue, saturation and lightness respectively.

The so-called zoning adjustment refers to dividing photos into different areas according to certain standards, and then adjusting these areas separately.

HSL tool can divide the picture according to the color, and then adjust it according to different colors. For example, if we just want to adjust the leaves, then we can choose green, so that the blue sky will not be affected.

In later software, retouching apps with this function include: VSCO, teasing retouching, Lrightroom mobile version.

The software used in today's tutorial is: rough retouching (there are benefits at the end of the article, don't slip away)

Sample drawings can be saved as exercises.

first step

The first step in later retouching is to analyze the lack of drawings to suit the remedy to the case.

As can be seen in the original picture, the vegetation is green in a large area, which is completely out of line with the characteristics of autumn. Changing the hue of color is what we need to focus on later.

Second step

Adjust the tone, strengthen the contrast, increase the contrast of the picture and improve the texture. Reduce highlights and restore leaf details. Shadows don't need to move, because the picture itself doesn't have much contrast between light and shade.

The white color scale needs to be improved, because the front highlights are reduced, and the brighter parts look gray and need to be adjusted back.

The purpose of improving the black color scale is to brighten the darker areas and make the picture more transparent.

Come to the curve and pull out the S shape to enhance the overall contrast of the picture. Lifting the end dot can make the dark part more layered.

Then you can see the red curve, and put it up at the highlight (put it up and add red, pull it down and add green), and the original green leaves begin to show a warmer side.

Third step

The most important step is to change the hue of the color.

In the HSL tool for rough retouching, find the green color and slide the hue to the left to the lowest. This step aims to change the original green leaf tone into yellow.

The yellow tone is biased towards orange, creating a more intense color atmosphere.

The orange saturation is strengthened again, and it is clear that the orange-yellow color system is the main color.

The hue of red is orange, where the saturation is slightly reduced, otherwise the red will easily overflow and the spatial relationship will be reversed.

Saturation of other cool colors decreases-100.

Then there is texture, which can increase the clarity and adjust the clarity of the picture. It can also be used to repair the picture effect that is slightly out of focus.

Fine-tune, crop and reconstruct images and export them.

The whole post-process is very simple, mainly using HSL tools. This small function is very practical and can be applied when dealing with many picture effects.

It is through this adjustment that an ordinary daily photo can successfully blend into the ranks of autumn. Friends, have you learned?

Finally, I will give you a small benefit, and I will reply backstage by private message: You can get the complete preset of this retouching in autumn.