As a lover of photography, you may be accustomed to using your camera settings and options to adjust the focus, visibility, and composition of your photos. There are also times when you look at your photos on the camera's LCD screen and re-enter them in slightly different settings to get the best experience. By showing such care when taking pictures, the quality of a photo taken directly from the camera is often enough to convey your experience, but some special events require a lot of attention: weddings, birthdays, anniversary celebrations, graduation ceremonies, your child's first steps. .. All of these unique moments deserve the immortality of the most beautiful light, and that’s why it’s important that you learn to organize your photos. In other words, you can correct many mistakes, improve make-up, brightness and other technical aspects, bring a real touch to all of your event photos, and much more.
To be more efficient when editing your photos, it can be very helpful to shoot in RAW format, eg set your camera to save your photos as RAW files instead of JPEG. Simply put, a RAW file has a negative digital content that contains raw, unprocessed data in your camera action, where you can display multiple image interpretations. JPEG files have been processed by the camera and can be easily shared from the camera.
However, they offer a very small way to re-touch or repair. To get the most out of both formats, configure your camera to store files in both RAW and JPEG types. Be aware, however, that you will need more space on your camera memory card to store both types of each image.
To create an image from a RAW file, you need to process it. You can do this on camera, and make a few adjustments as you go, such as adjusting the brightness, adjusting the lens deviation, applying preset effects (Clear or Soft), and more. However, it is best to do the processing on your computer screen (very large) using software that focuses on editing RAW files, such as Digital Photo Professional. It's a simple step that allows you to apply a different image style, adjust white balance, reduce noise, and more.
Changes made to the RAW file (on your camera or computer) are not harmful. In other words, the original file is unaffected, and any correction can be changed, altered, or deleted at any time, even if you close the file and reopen it later.
Improve Exposure:
Exposure is one of the parameters you can properly consider when processing a RAW file. While you can change the aperture, shutter speed, or ISO sensitivity, you can adjust the full brightness and selectively enhance the dark and bright areas. This setting is especially helpful in re-imagining traditional wedding photos taken on a sunny day, when sometimes it is difficult to take all the details of the bride's white dress and black groom's suit.
RAW files offer a much wider range of power than JPEG files, allowing you to highlight seemingly invisible details using Light and Shadow controls. These changes are available as individual slides in the Lightroom, Development module, and in the DPP image style section. If you are using DPP, you can also change the intensity of the automatic light adjustment setting, which will automatically make exposure and contrast.
Avoid Clipping:
When light areas disappear into bright white or dark areas that are supposed to contain subtle details turn into a dark area where the elements cannot be separated, they are said to be cut. . You can see it in histogram image on your camera or in your RAW file editing software: instead of going down at each end, the histogram curve will appear cut. So remember to look at the histogram when adjusting the display. As you move the slides, the histogram moves right as the image brightens, or left as the image darkens. In general, you should avoid pressing the histogram on the edge of the screen, as you will lose details in areas of the image to be cut. Obviously, a light or dark effect will give some photos a very interesting effect, but as a general rule it is advisable to keep as many details as possible in places such as a wedding dress.
To easily check the display settings, you can turn on the Light and Shade warning indicators. They show image areas that will give completely black (blue) or completely white (red). This option is included in the DPP drop-down drop down menu. You can turn on or off alerts in Lightroom by clicking the small boxes at the top of the histogram.
If you have light shadows and reduce bright areas, your image may not be the same. The Tone Curve control panel gives you the option to rediscover the difference. To increase the contrast, first try to make the S-shaped curve slightly sloping down to accentuate the shadows. Finally, click on the upper part of the line and drag it slightly to accentuate the whites.
Correct the White Balance:
Before adjusting the colors in your image, it is helpful to adjust the white balance. Photos taken at a party, such as a big wedding, may be taken under a variety of lighting: sunlight, event lights, sunset, and disco lights at the party in the evening. You can use a complete suite of white balance tools from DPP or Lightroom to remove color emissions caused by different lights, or add more with creative effects.
Resetting the white DPP balance is similar to what is available on Canon EOS cameras. You can change the effect by manually changing the mixture of blue / amber and magenta / green to make sure the colors stay true to life. You can also use the white balance eyedropper tool. Click White Balance, then click the image area that should appear in neutral white or gray to remove the color based on the entire image. Lightroom provides the same set of commands.
Light color can be what motivates you to take a photo from the beginning. You may feel like you should try it. In addition, a "warm" white balance (red and less blue) can produce flattering skin tones.
Saturation Adjustment
Once the color temperature is set, it is time to move on to color usage. When you open a RAW file in the DPP, the image style used to capture the image is automatically selected, but you can use the drop-down list to try another. Advanced Category also allows you to change image style settings, including color tone and enlarge or reduce color saturation.
Instead of the Image Style command, Lightroom has a series of image profiles and settings that allow you to create the perfect style with just one click. These settings can also be used as a starting point for additional changes. Additionally, you can save the last offer as a new custom reset that you can use in other images. Reset saves a lot of time and is used by many photographers to achieve a popular filter or vintage look when they need to edit hundreds of photos.
Instead of processing each image individually, DPP gives you the option to copy a “recipe” to touch a single image and apply it to one or more images. To do this, select the image icon you want to copy its settings and navigate to Edit> Copy recipe in the top bar. (You can also use Edit> Select and copy Recipe Settings, then select the specific settings you want to copy.) Then select the icons you want to use for the same look, then go to Edit> Paste recipe. After you add a recipe or photo style to a photo, you can always make some changes to it or go back to the settings you were photographed with. Remember that touch does not hurt.
Use Black and White:
DPP and Lightroom have a series of color correction: Hue, Saturation and Light. These slides allow you to adjust individual colors to an image to get subtle or vivid effects. If you are working with outdoor shooting, for example, you can adjust the blue sliders to sharpen and enrich the blue sky, or brighten it up and reduce the fullness, depending on the style you want. You can also enhance the mood of a fall wedding by emphasizing orange, yellow and red. To enhance skin tones in the images, slide the Orange Brightness slider slightly to the right.
Obviously, you may not want to be colored at all. While souvenirs are often more appealing in bright colors, converting wedding photos to black and white adds a timeless quality that allows viewers to focus on temporary happiness. Monochrome can also help you solve some technical problems. For example, it can bring people together in a series of photos taken at different wedding times and in different places. The canopy is also a shotgun taken at high ISO sensitivity or at low light in the house.
Instead of choosing a monochrome image style in the DPP, click the Monochrome button at the top of the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness color correction panel. This will allow you to continue using T, S, and L slides to adjust subdivisions and various gray colors in the converted image. Some images may look dull and dull when turned black and white, but you can achieve powerful effects by playing with Brightness slides to add brightness and character.
As you progress through the various stages of image editing, be prepared to step back and improve on your previous editing. You may need to adjust the display or contrast again after changing colors, for example. The final step is to make the image sharp. When it comes to sharpening, balance is often preferred to complexity. Feel free to expand on the most important details to better evaluate the right amount of sharpness you will use.
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