How does landscape photography shoot a stunning late stage?

1. If the scenery you want to shoot has amazing effects after post-processing, pre-shooting is the foundation. First, use the RAW format. RAW has deeper color depth than straight JPG, so it has richer color expression, so it has more space in the later stage. When JPG pulls the curve, the whole histogram will be broken, but RAW will not, so it can get better output effect.

The second is to choose when the light is soft. Generally, the light before 9 am and after 3 pm is soft, while the light at other times, especially at noon, is too strong, so the post-processing is a bit difficult.

Third, we should have a good composition. Usually a good composition can make up for the lack of light.

2. Post-adjustment is complicated, involving mask, selection, optional color, hue/saturation, HDR, channel, curve and contrast. Among them, the first three are often used without contrast or as far as possible with the selection or mask. For example, a photo is gray, and the blue sky occupies nearly half of the picture. Direct comparison will destroy the details. Combining contrast with masks and optional colors can make photos have correct colors and contrast. The correct way is to combine high light and low light with a mask (the essence of contrast is to make black darker and white whiter), and then adjust the sky with optional colors (why adjust the sky? Because the color of the sky is gray, it is not bright enough, but if the contrast color is used directly, trees, buildings or other scenery will also be affected, so choose the optional color blue). To do a good job in the later stage, you need to master the use of software skillfully and understand the relationship between colors at the same time.