Simple and practical, post-production tutorial on aerial night scene photography

It is not best to shoot night scenes when the sky is completely dark and the lights are bright. Unless there is a special need, the lighting in the black sky is not good-looking because the light ratio is large, the lights will be overexposed, and the areas without lights will be dark. .

I won’t go into details about the basic principles of photography and other post-retouching steps. I will use PS CC 2015 as a post-production explanation and just tell you how to do it step by step.

Take Yuejiang Tower in Nanjing as an example, please see the original picture:

The original picture is in AEB shooting mode, 3 shots, the shooting data are:

The first step: Open adobe bridge cc, and select the three pictures taken by AEB at the same time

The second step: Right-click on one of the works, select open, and transfer to adobe camera raw for batch processing. The content includes the loading and correction of lens data and the elimination of lens purple fringing.

Step 3: Click the Hide function button in the upper left corner, load and merge the three AEB exposure images into HDR, and open the merged image

Step 4: Click to open the image , enter ps for processing, hold down the option+command+2 key combination (win system Ctrl+alt+2) to select the highlight part of the image, and bring up the curve adjustment layer in the lower left corner, and slightly adjust the highlight part of the picture< /p>

Step 5: Hold down shift+option+command+e to stamp the layer (ctrl+shift+alt+e in win), and select "Filter" camera raw "filter in the upper adjustment bar Mirror, enter

Step 6: Enter the "fx" effect option, click "Remove Haze" and move the slider to the right until the picture effect is satisfactory to you. After that, you can return to "Basic" Option, move the "Shadow" slider slightly to the right to repair the loss of shadow detail caused by the previous haze removal.

Step 7: Click OK to enter PS, and bring up the "Quick Mask" in the left toolbar, enter the selection, select the ground buildings and water surface, and then click on the right to adjust the layer selection color Level, adjust the created selection, the degree of adjustment is subject to personal preference

Step 8: Make the final tone adjustment, click on the adjustment layer on the right to bring up the "Curves" adjustment layer , make an adjustment to increase the contrast of the image. Please refer to the curve in the picture for specific placement methods

Step 9: Image processing is completed, hold down shift+command+e to merge the layers, and hold down shift+ option+command+s to save the picture, please refer to the picture for specific values

Later production display: