Using Contrast & Color to Add Depth & Interest for Nature Photos that Grab Attention VIDEO)

One of the crucial efficient methods to remodel good panorama pictures into nice ones is by including depth and dimension through the enhancing course of. And a simple means to do that in Lightroom is with simple changes to colours and distinction.

These easy enhancements make pictures extra dramatic and compelling and assist information a viewer’s eyes by way of the scene. This system is especially useful for bettering photographs shot underneath flat, uninspiring mild that leads to pictures with no obvious depth.

We regularly flip to Canadian landscape photographer Adam Gibbs for simple tutorials designed to enhance your abilities. On this 15-minute Lightroom lesson he demonstrates how simple it’s to create the phantasm of depth by altering coloration temperature and including or subtracting distinction.

As Gibbs explains, “Contrast can are available in many varieties together with distinction in colours, textures, shapes, and naturally mild.” The information he supplies for modifying these parts are fairly delicate, however they ship huge outcomes. He additionally illustrates how to intensify these results and draw viewers right into a scene by utilizing easy masks in Lightroom.

Gibbs employs three photographs, every with its personal issues, to illustrate how all this works. The primary is a shot of rolling sand dunes that he captured throughout a visit to the Gobi Desert. As you may see, this shot has actual potential by way of layering and composition, that was obscured by boring, flat mild.

The rehabilitation proceeds with Gibbs noting a constructive facet to the picture; specifically that the sky is noticeably cooler that the hotter dunes within the foreground. So he will get began by accentuating this distinction in colours. He notes there are a number of methods to deal with this job, the best being the Contrast slider. his choice, nevertheless, is to add (or subtract) blacks to obtain the look he is after. Modifying the whites can also be useful too.

Concentrate to the histogram within the higher proper nook of the display screen as Gibbs makes these and different easy changes. Gibbs says he likes his photographs good and vivid, so he brings down the blacks and pumps up the whites. Bear in mind that these enhancements are topic to private style, and the changes you make might differ a bit relying on the temper you are making an attempt to create.

Gibbs walks you thru the step-by-step edits he makes to two different photographs, and you will choose up extra useful ideas for including depth to these photographs. One in every of these was shot in the identical space because the picture mentioned above, and his edit observe an analogous path—with a linear filter to enhance the looks of depth.

Yow will discover extra panorama pictures recommendation on Gibbs’ instructional YouTube channel, so pay a go to when you may have time.

And on a associated observe, we encourage you to watch a tutorial we posted earlier, demonstrating 4 useful ideas for taking pictures panorama and nature pictures with delicate, blurry backgrounds that make a topic stand out.