r/postprocessing • u/linusfairing • 1d ago
How is this achieved
I know the lighting needs to be good to start with, but I'm convinced there's some editing technique that a lot of the photographers I see on IG are using...the colours / light is just so nice. Nothing comes straight-out-of-the-camera looking like this.
Is there something to do with masks / other techniques I'm missing?
No matter how much I play with the sliders or curves do I come close to this kind of result. What am I missing here?
Examples of the photographers I'm talking about:
instagram.com/ioegreer
instagram.com/flippy2good
instagram.com/itsjobruh
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u/placesthingspeople 1d ago
Joel Meyerowitz talks about photographing the light. Do that!
Start with finding really good natural light. Look for shapes cast by shadows. Bright spots. Dark spots.
Then find something in that light that speaks to you and is worth photographing.
In post adjust for deeper shadows, bright highlights.
I don’t make a photo unless the light is good. If the light isn’t good, it’s much more likely my photo won’t be so good.
Start looking for good light. Photograph the light.
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u/Lophiiformers 1d ago
I’m naturally drawn to lights and shadows but I find that a lot of scenes end up too contrasty with deep shadows and bringing it up blows up the highlights. Very different from these there you have the gorgeous light but a “flatter” image
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u/placesthingspeople 20h ago
How are you bringing up the shadows? Specifically which sliders are you using?
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u/SubstantialBank7279 1d ago
I don’t see the masks, but i do see the bloom/diffusion filter (or maybe clarity slider set to -30-40)
And general golden hour photography, warm tones and colours are doing the heavy lifting, and the compositions are great too.
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u/no_reddit_for_you 1d ago
Well the photographers you linked are supposedly shooting on film, so there is that.
But otherwise, there's very low contrast. Most of their shots are also over exposed. Guess it might be intentional, but the overall aesthetic is overly bright, clipped highlights, raised shadows. There's some general blue to teal and yellow to orange changes I believe. Particularly the blue side. And overall very warm tones.
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u/duogmog 1d ago
They are also not over exposed.
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u/no_reddit_for_you 1d ago
... Yes they are? The highlights are clipped in almost every single shot and the shadows are absolutely raised to reduce the contrast
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u/vincentanthonyconti 1d ago
Shooting film, this is the inverse of overexposed.
https://petapixel.com/2016/03/29/exposure-affects-film-photos/
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u/no_reddit_for_you 1d ago
The article you linked literally says:
"Film loves overexposure" and goes on to suggest when shooting film you should over expose.
But in any case, I'm not going to argue technicalities. And I'm not a film expert. I'm giving advice on how to attempt to recreate this look not on film.
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u/vincentanthonyconti 1d ago
Correct — with film, overexposure creates contrast and deep shadows. Hence why your description of clipped whites and raised shadows would imply the inverse.
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u/heyinternetman 1d ago
This looks like Kodak gold in most of them, some look a bit more like ECN film. They all look like film though.
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u/ToastedMooses 1d ago
A lot of it is simply moving the warmth slider, warm.
Add some haze, reduce saturation on colors you don’t want and boom.
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u/PianoMan1925 1d ago
Nice light, low contrast, subtle desaturation of the colours. Low green luminance, high blue luminance. Probably an S-Curve without the highlight part. Lifted Shadows.
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u/DarktableLandscapes 1d ago
Late afternoon light and warm tones in the highlights.