Now, in this tutorial, I'm going to show you
guys how to make a photo that looks like this
out of something like this.
Now, I am giving you guys kind of a base from
where to work with like...I am not showing
you, I am not telling you this is the only
way to do it.
I want to encourage people to experiment on
lightroom, come up with their own things but
I always think it is helpful to give people
like a push, kind of a general idea of what
to do and where to go from there.
So I won't be showing everything I do, but
I'll show in general what I do.
Now, first we have Lightroom here and uh what
I like to do is first start with the temperature,
find something white, so here we go.
It's about 5200 which is generally where I
keep the temperature of these kinds of videos
but later we might have to change it.
We'll see but in general around 4800 to 5200
for these kinds of pictures.
Now, the main thing we're gonna do is go down
to the split toning.
Right here so, what you want to do is change
the highlights to some kind of blue tone because
we are going for the whole kind of Bladerunner
ish look right so...
I'm gonna leave it here because I like the
teal.
If you look at old posters of Bladerunner
it is always like teals and blues and now
we are going to go down to the shadows.
You want some kind of purple or violet so
we are just going to eyeball it, you know?
This looks about right.
Now...this is not perfect, this is like one
of those things you are going to go back and
forth to see what you like best and we're
going to play around with the balance here
so ..go this way it turns too, a little purple
and turn over here you get a little bit better
balance, so I just eyeball things so they
are not perfect.
Just kind of what I like and I guess something
like that.
So this just gives you a general base right?
Of where to work with.
Now what I do from here, usually I start going
to the highlights I like to decrease the highlights
and I'm going to increase the shadows.
It's kind of an HDR effect, you know?
And from there increase the whites, so I am
going to press J so I can see the red shows
up, it tells me if something is overblown,
I try not to overblow too much.
Just enough alright?
So, next I am going to go to the blacks, decrease
them until you have a fair amount of black
but not too much.
I try not to go below 20.
So, now our picture is starting to look much
better, press J again and actually I don't
like too much clarity.
People tend to jack up the clarity, I tend
to go backwards.
Because it makes the lights more soft but
not too much.
I like to go like -15 you know?
You can see the difference it's kind of like
foggier look and generally I don't mess with
the saturation that much because I don't really
think you need it.
It's already pretty vibrant.
And yeah that's pretty much it.
Now...since this is night photography, and
you are shooting at a much higher ISO than
normal, here is ISO 3200 f/4, I always increase
luminence around 40 and it doesn't look like
I need to mess with the color much so 25.
Now I am going to sharpen this.
And I like the settings from SLR Lounge, I've
been using them since I started photography
so 70, 1.5, 10, 30.
So that gives it a nice sharpness to it.
And...I would say that is about it but that's
not because I do like, I do like when my brights
are nice and bright so we are gonna brush
a little bit.
I have this brush for the highlights, basically
I just increase the highlights a little bit
more and we're just going to brush right along
here.
Make it a little vibrant down there.
You can see the colors pop and we're going
to do a little bit on the light too.
Right here.
There we go.
So...in general that is what I do, I go towards
the light areas and give it a little bit more
of a pop.
Sometimes, I'll increase the exposure a little
bit but not too much.
It's too crazy just something reasonable.
And there you go.
So...I know this style of photography is not
for everybody but I know there's people out
there who want to learn how to do it and uh
I am just giving you a base from which you
guys can work on, I don't want you to do this
every single picture, it's just an idea of
what goes into making a picture like this,
you know?
Maybe a little contrast, make the blacks blacker,
but anyways, I hope you guys enjoy these videos,
these tutorials and uh If you would please
subscribe, I'd be very grateful so yeah...have
a good one and see you next time.
