How to edit A Dark Photo In Lightroom
How to Edit Underexposed Photos in Lightroom Tutorial
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hey everyone I'm back today with a new
Lightroom tutorial and today we are
going to be editing this photo and I'm
going to be showing you what you can do
in Lightroom to bring back the detail of
a photo so as you can see this image was
shot pretty underexposed and the reason
for that is because we were shooting
just after sunset the Sun had set behind
these mountains here and as I was taking
these photos I wanted to make sure that
I was able to save as much of every
aspect of the image as I possibly could
so in case that doesn't make sense I
wanted to make sure that I shot
underexposed enough that I could keep
the details and the light in the sky so
it wasn't just like white and blown out
and I also wanted to make sure that I
exposed high enough to make sure that I
could still save the details of our
model here so you can see her properly
in the photo when we finish editing it
so in normal situations when I'm
shooting I do like to expose for the
model's face and I make sure that you
know they're really clear and that the
fruit is balanced but in these really
harsh lighting conditions sometimes you
need to expose a little bit differently
and kind of save the image in pose so
unless I had like artificial lights or
something lighting up my model that's
it's just not possible to shoot that
with just natural light so that's why I
exposed the image the way that it is so
let's get into it I'm going to show you
guys how I'm gonna edit this photo to
just bring back everything and make it
look like a really nice final image so
the first thing I'm gonna do is bring up
the exposure slightly not too much
because we don't want to lose that
detail in the sky and I'm gonna go and
bring the highlights down to try and see
how much of that sky we can save so
we're actually able to save a lot of the
sky Oh to show you before and after of
those edits quickly and it's really
brought back all these details in the
clouds and the color here in the
distance as well so I'm quite happy with
that
the next thing I want to do is bring out
the model so I'm gonna bring the shadows
up in the footer and this should only
affect the shadowy parts of the image so
let's bring that up so that's pretty
much saving a nice section of our
subject here and now we can clearly see
the model properly which I really like
so when you bring the shadows up in a
fritter it tends to lose contrast so I
also like to bring the blacks down a
little bit just to add a little bit of
that punch back into the image and that
the blacks really only affects the
darkest darkest areas you prefer to so
as you can see it's effecting here in
the in like the mountain foresty area as
well as our models hair so I think just
about there is looking good so when I'm
editing a photo like this I like to kind
of go through each of the sliders
multiple times and just adjust them
little by little so I did the highlights
and the shadows already but then I want
to go back and I'll move the exposure up
just a little bit as well as the shadows
again and then I'll move the blacks down
a little bit more and I'll basically
just tweak everything until I'm happy
with what the image is looking like so I
feel like it's looking really good so
far
I'm also going to add a turn Cove to it
to give the image a little bit more
style so I'm gonna do my favorite kind
of s-curve to kind of give the image of
film like look so I like to pull the
blacks up to modify the image and then I
bring the whites up a little bit and I
also like to pull the highlights down
and that kind of flattens the white area
of the photo as well so here's a little
before and after of the turn Cove and I
might bring down the whites a little bit
more because we're losing a lot of
detail in that sky with the curves I
think just there is good perfect so once
you've finished editing the turn of your
footer I'm really happy with how
balanced this is all looking so far you
can see the model you can see a bit of
the background you can also see detail
in the sky I'll show you a before and
after of all the tonal edits that we've
done so that was the original image
this is with all our edits so far so
once you've done the tonal editing it
tends to affect the colors of the image
a lot so I like to move on to that next
so the first thing I'm noticing is that
our model looks really blue and when I'm
editing colors I want to note that I
normally focus on my subject skintone
the most as I feel like if you get that
right the whole image kind of balances
and comes together so let's bring up the
temperature until our models skin tone
is looking a little bit warmer so I
think just about that and bringing up
the temperature has sort of added like a
green tint to a photo so I'm also going
to bring up the tint into the Pink's a
little bit there we go it's looking much
nicer and now that we've edited the
colors I just want to go back and adjust
the turn a little bit more so I'm gonna
bring up the exposure just a little bit
and add a little bit of contrast with
the contrast slider and we are done with
our image so here is the final before
and after this is the original image
that was straight out of the camera and
this is what it looks like with all our
editing if you have any questions please
let me know in the comments below
otherwise I hope you enjoyed watching
this tutorial and I hope you learnt
something thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you guys all really soon
bye
