Does photography post-study really focus on technology?

I have been studying photography for some time. The parameters of the SLR camera have been set and the composition is good. Why don't I take good pictures?

The answer is simple "because you won't be late", as the saying goes, "you're late because you're not skilled enough." Now the photographer is not late, even the photographer is late. How powerful it is in the later period, just look at the picture above:

Original picture:

After post-processing:

Post-processing like the above is not difficult for mobile phones. Today, I still use the most commonly used mobile phone retouching software (Snapseed) to explain, because I have talked a lot about the operation skills of Snapseed, so I won't go into details today. Today, I will mainly talk about its functions and functions. Only when you know what these functions are for can you know how to use them!

Snapseed icon, open the APP to import pictures for operation.

I found a photo as a column today. I found the following picture:

The overall photo is dark and the saturation is not enough. Import photos directly into Snapseed to start post-processing.

After importing the picture, click the icon in the lower right corner. I framed it in red.

After completing the above steps, the following screen will appear, and click "Adjust Screen".

Then there will be a long list of nouns, such as brightness, contrast, saturation and so on.

I won't teach you how to adjust these parameters today, but I will tell you what these parameters represent and what they do. When you know this, you can adjust it according to the actual situation of your photos.

Then I can't copy other people's parameters. Maybe my photo brightness only needs to be increased by 20, and your photo may need to be increased by 30. The photos are different, and the parameter adjustment is naturally different.

Brightness: Brightness is easy to understand. It can increase the brightness or darken a photo. Like the photo above, the whole is dark. At this time, you can click on the brightness to highlight it.

Atmosphere: Adjusting the atmosphere can enhance the saturation of photos and increase the details of photos. Although the above picture is dark as a whole, the details are there. Just adjust the atmosphere to show the details.

Contrast: Contrast refers to the measurement of different brightness levels between the brightest white and the darkest black in the bright and dark areas of an image. The larger the difference range, the greater the contrast, and the smaller the difference range, the smaller the contrast. There is no need to compare here.

Saturation: This only requires everyone to remember one sentence: "The higher the saturation, the brighter the photo color; The lower the saturation, the lighter the color of the photo. " The photo above needs to be saturated to make the color brighter.

Shadow: Adjusting the shadow can change the details of the photo. If you add shadows, the dark parts of the photo will gradually decrease and the details will increase. Lowering the shadow will increase the darkness of the photo and reduce the details. Don't adjust the shadow greatly, a large black area will appear when it is lowered, and the noise will increase when it is raised.

Highlights: Highlights and shadows are opposite, shadows correspond to dark parts, and highlights correspond to bright parts. The working principle is the same.

Warm color: this is also easy to understand. If you swipe left, you add blue, if you swipe right, you add yellow. This will be adjusted according to the photo environment.

The picture below is the adjusted photo:

I still feel bad after adjustment. At this point, you should use the brush tool to make adjustments again.

Click the brush, and the following figure will appear:

The brush has four adjustment options: adding and subtracting light, exposure, color temperature and saturation.

Add light and subtract light: I can adjust the value with the arrows in the green box, just like the number axis. After adjusting the value, you can apply it where you need to add or subtract light.

Color temperature: the down arrow indicates yellow, and the down arrow indicates blue. Here, the color temperature of the sky and buildings is reduced, and the color temperature is increased where the sun shines, enhancing the sense of the picture.

Saturation: You can smear the whole picture to increase the saturation of the picture.

Exposure: this is rarely used, but you can still try it.

Adjusted photos:

The whole process is basically completed. If you have any good suggestions, you can make more adjustments to make the photos look better.

Original film:

After adjustment: