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The relationship between saturation and brightness

The relationship between saturation and brightness

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

The relationship between saturation and brightness

- I've got this landscape shot here that I've been working on. This is a rainstorm blowing through New Mexico, very high-dynamic range situation here, because I've got bright sky up here, the sun behind the clouds up here, which is causing my meter to properly render this bit, properly exposed for this bit, which is good. I've preserved all this detail, but it's left all of this in dark shadow. Very simple thing to fix. I've gone in, here in Photoshop, and made a number of different localized adjustments using adjustment layers. I'm just going to turn those on so you can see what I did here. I started by brightening the foreground. That was just a very simple levels adjustment. And I don't even have, I believe, no, I do, it's mostly just a white point adjustment. I didn't make any gamma adjustments. I'm just brightening that bit. Then I went in and brightened some little bits of grass here and there, just to break up the monotony of it, make it look a little more real and…

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