How to make people's dark parts and shadows transparent

The key to "transparency" is to light the dark part, not to burn the bright part.

Reed in the sunset. The original picture of the fuselage is straight out. The dim darkness made the whole photo lifeless.

The picture above is the first photo to be demonstrated. Time is still dusk, the most suitable golden moment for photography, and the main body is a clump of reeds. The sunset and the background sky constitute the bright part of the whole photo, because only yellow can be preserved in a fairly high brightness, so the sunset hangs in the air like a golden plate, and there is nothing to emphasize in the bright part. So the first step to adjust the bright part is to restore the details of the sunset as much as possible, but such efforts are doomed to fail in most cases, and this time is no exception.

Reducing "exposure" to -0.30 and increasing "recovery" to 33 can only restore limited sunset details. It is of little significance to continue the adjustment, because it is difficult to further improve the visual effect, which will only cause greater pressure on the adjustment of the dark part, and the reed in the dark part is the main body of the whole photo. I didn't adjust the "brightness" because there is nothing to adjust the "brightness" for the bright part. At this time, I am not sure how to adjust the "brightness" will be beneficial to the subsequent adjustment of the dark part.

There is no doubt that the dark part will determine the tone of the whole photo. If you want to create a feeling of depression, there is no doubt that you should keep the whole reed dark. But I don't think this tone is suitable for this photo, and the bright tone may be more in line with the artistic conception of this photo. This means that the dark part of the reed should not only increase the contrast, but also increase the brightness on a large scale.

The first thing you may think of is to increase the brightness to control the brightness of the dark part, but you only need to adjust the brightness to find that this is not desirable, which not only makes the sunset lose almost all the details, but also fails to create the contrast between light and shade that the dark part should have.

The mystery lies in the twin brothers "full of light" and "black". If you are brave enough, slide these two sliders to the right, and a miracle will happen. Not only will the low elements in the darkness disappear, but the bright "transparency" will suddenly increase. This not only benefits from the illusion that the dark details are visually increased, but also benefits from the expansion of the tonal range occupied by the whole dark part.

The final value of "full of bright light" is 65, and the value of "black" is 6 1.