How to adjust the photo to the tone of the movie?

Recently, many friends told me how to bring out the "movie-like feeling" in the work of Noon. In fact, from the perspective of color alone, cinematic tones are diverse, with cold and warm contrast and harmony, but the cinematic feeling they bring has some characteristics, such as the common film frame cropping ratio (2.35: 1) and relatively low. So I'm going to share the color matching ideas of this group of photos, hoping to help ~

Look at the contrast between the film and the original:

Original film

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Equipment: Canon 6D+ Canon 352 II

Original film analysis: the relationship between light and shade is not prominent, the color is gloomy, and the details need to be dealt with. In fact, this group of photos needs more local processing, such as drawing a side backlight on the left side of the central axis. The scene is indeed of such a light level, but because the relationship between clouds is not prominent, we will further render it through the later stage.

First, enter ACR to make the following adjustments, slightly increase the color temperature value, and make the picture warmer. Restore some details, strengthen color saturation, and improve yellow brightness to make tea and trees stand out in the picture.

2. After correcting the lens, the dark angle can be properly retained. Increase the saturation of the original blue (compared with directly increasing the saturation, the whole is more natural, but it will have a greater impact on the blue)

The following is the comparison before and after adjustment. We see that the photos are slightly better, but there is still a lack of light and shadow. Next, we will input PS for frame editing and the most important local processing.

4. Cut the film frame. As shown in the figure, first select the cropping tool, set it to "zoom" mode, change the value to "2.35: 1", crop the composition for the second time, and click OK. Then set the background color to black, set the scale to "3: 2", and cut off the black edge.

5. Click "Filter -Camera Raw" to enter, select the radial filter tool, and add exposure and color temperature at the position shown in the figure. It can be seen that there are a large number of control points in the range of radial filter in the figure, which are mainly used on the light receiving surface, in line with the light-dark relationship and highlighting the side backlight.

Then use the "Gradient Filter Tool" to darken the surroundings to further enhance the light and shadow. The range of control points is shown in the figure.

Then enter the curve and adjust it to the following shape. Pay attention to the lower left corner and the upper right corner, brighten the black field and darken the white field, so that the photo is not dead black and pure white, and it is more "gray", which improves the visual tolerance and seems to have more details (actually lost).

6. Click OK to return to the liquefaction grinding role in PS interface. This figure is very small and does not need much processing. I use neutral ash grinding. Then the tea farmer behind the mirror repaired it.

Create a new "optional color" adjustment layer, select yellow, add magenta and cyan to make it redder (this tool is adjusted according to complementary color principle, unfamiliar friends can search RGB mode), and then use "color balance" to add some blue and cyan to the dark part.

Finally, fine-tune and sharpen the photos and export them. It is suggested to check "Convert to sRGB" in the "File-Export-Export as" option to share it on the network and save a copy in PSD or Tiff format.