[Photography classroom] How to shoot the indoor water flow? Flash+retouching can make the water flow clear and transparent ~

There were two articles about shooting Qingshui before, one was in Jingzhitou Park, Japan, and the other was a photo of the noodle shop owner scooping water. What the two articles have in common is that they both rely on outdoor natural light, so they can quickly pull the shutter to shoot. But what if it's indoors? If the indoor light is insufficient, increasing the shutter will inevitably improve ISO, but photos with more ISO impurities seem to be completely out of touch with "clear water".

At this time, we have to use a good friend to fill the light: flash ~ but using flash can only improve the shutter. In order to make the water look clear and transparent, we need some modification. Let's see how to shoot the clear and transparent water flow indoors!

In fact, retouching is not difficult at all! As long as you know the skills, the rest will be much easier ~

If you want to know more about Lightroom, please come to the "Chen Jian Fan Group" to watch the teaching! facebook/chenning.wowdigi

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This is a photo of taking apart the waterproof case of the mobile phone a long time ago. In order to pour water for the mobile phone, the whole series of photos were taken in the bathroom. At that time, my bathroom was too small to bring the shed light into the bathroom, so I had to use the small flashing light installed on the top of the machine to help. Although the flash can't achieve high-speed synchronization, you can still pull the shutter to1160s and load it directly!

The shutter of my photo is set to1160s, because if it is higher, the flash can't keep up with the speed, and half of the photo will be black (the flash used at that time was horrible), so it can only be set to1160s. However, with the help of the flash, the water droplets can still be photographed clearly, so the effect is not bad. Here, the flashing lights can just jump and flash. Anyway, as long as there is light, don't care too much about the direction of light. Instead, the process of pouring water is more difficult. Pour less and you can't see running water. If you pour too much, you will wash your mobile phone ... so pouring water is the most difficult part compared to taking pictures.

But please don't misunderstand that you can use a long shutter with a flash! The above picture shows the shutter pulled to 1/4s. If the shutter is too slow, you will still catch the living light source, and you will get a blurred picture like the one above, and the water flow is also very unclear. So remember, unless you want to take pictures of rivers flowing, you have to open the high-speed shutter to take pictures of water droplets like this.

As you can see from the front, the photo itself is not bright enough. That's because I was used to shooting with low ISO at that time, so the photos I took were always underexposed ... first brighten the photos, but at the same time make them slightly blurred, so lower the brightness to expose those overexposed parts of his body. The contrast here is also slightly improved, making the lines of water flow clearer.

Because increasing exposure will also reduce the contrast of the photo, I reduced the value of the dark part in addition to the bright part to increase the contrast of the whole photo. So far, we can see the shape of the water flow roughly, but it is still not enough. We must make the water flow look clearer and clearer, so we must start with clarity and sharpness again.

First of all, enhance the clarity, while the contrast of the whole photo increases, it will also make the line shape of the water flow clearer, and at the same time, it will also make some parts that look too dark in front brighter. In fact, the photos have become a bit too ferocious here. As I said before, we can't just adjust by pulling the clarity of the whole photo. That's the reason. But it doesn't matter, continue to adjust first, and then adjust back.

This step is to improve sharpness. Compared with the previous photos, the detailed lines and waves of the water flow look clearer. If you can't see them on the screen of your mobile phone, I suggest you zoom in and see the difference between the above picture and the above picture.

Then there is the key point to balance the contrast of the whole photo! Because we can't adjust the clarity of the water flow only by the clarity of the whole photo, we need to use a brush to adjust the water flow locally. First, draw all the parts of the water flow with a brush. It is suggested that only colors should be used, so as to draw better, so as not to miss a part and forget to choose. Please note, however, that this photo has many white backgrounds, so don't draw it too far away from the range of water flow, otherwise the white background will change color when colored, and it will look like a dog pattern in Damamachi, which is very ridiculous.

After painting, turn off the color indicator light to increase the local clarity, contrast and sharpness, so that the water flow lines can be more obvious and clear, as shown in the above picture.

Because the clarity and sharpness of the water flow have been partially increased, we can slightly reduce the clarity of the whole photo to avoid it looking too ferocious. At the same time, I also increased the exposure of the photo and reduced some contrast to make the color of the photo look natural.

In fact, it is not too difficult to take the whole photo and retouch it. I really want to say which part is the most troublesome ... I think it's better to pour water. This is really the most troublesome and difficult part of my filming!

In fact, retouching is not difficult at all! As long as you know the skills, the rest will be much easier ~

If you want to know more about Lightroom, please come to the "Chen Jian Fan Group" to watch the teaching! facebook/chenning.wowdigi

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Author: Chen Kun @ engadget