Edit photos to make them dramatic and the colors still stand out?
Hello
I started taking photos a few months ago. After a while, I started asking myself a few questions:
How do photographers edit their images so that they are dark, dramatic, and the colors still stand out?
I have 2 example pictures if you don't know what I mean 🙂
In terms of programs, I use Luminar 4 but am also considering getting Lightroom
Maybe someone can help me 🙂
So I don’t know how you’d benefit from Lightroom over Luminar. Besides that Lightroom is a bit faster, you can actually do the same.
The only thing that was made in the pictures are contrasts enhanced and in individual colors the saturation is increased, colors are shifted into reddish. The edges seem to be a little darkened.
You can also get everything in Luminar in the Color menu.
Dark, dramatic? I understand something else. I don’t know what’s so great about the examples, but be it.
Colors can also be processed separately and saturated. It’s nothing hard either. Also in free programs. To darken a motif or to darken some of it there are different approaches. Simply make darker, strengthen shadows, vignette, course, spot measurement of the camera, especially on brighter motifs etc.
If there are real professionals, they know to ask the right questions before the camera is triggered. They already check the natural (day) light (right daytime) and equal it with the exposure time, as well as with the aperture to be set, select the correct objective, the appropriate perspective & distance. They play with the sun(in) radiation and the mounted scattered light visor, as well as with various flash techniques or reflectors, some also with filters. They take exposure series. There are many impressive techniques in photographing.
all these are in my understanding the real, natural techniques for a good picture. And not a digital filter in Luminar/Neo or other software.
Disclaimer: I also use Neo, do not deny this kind of photo editing. However, it also keeps within limits, and I want to see very artistic effects … which is very rare.
happy that we could help
In Lightroom in the colour mix panel, you can change colors, their brightness and saturation separately.
Lights and shadows can also be adjusted separately in lightroom by slider or gradation curve.
The app for the phone is free.
In the example images, all other colors, except yellow and orange, were strongly saturated or shifted (for example, yellow traffic sign was made orange).