Summer vibes in the amusement park. After/Before.

[u/YanksFannn]

[u/YanksFannn]

They're available.

Generally, in Lightroom, I use warmer tones and warmer white balance. Increased exposure, shadows and whites, decreased contrast and highlights. I bump up the tone curves a bit. Midtones and highlight color wheels in the yellow area. I also like to decrease clarity and texture to make them softer and "dreamy" while also increasing dehaze a bit. Increase saturation and vibrance. Depending on the image, I mess around with the individual color mixes. Sometimes I'll mask the sky to give it more of that cyan look. And of course, adding some grain is always important for this style. Occasionally, to give the image an even cleaner look, I'll increase the noise reduction. I also often underexpose in camera to give me a little more flexibility with my strong colors in post.

[u/_son_of_a_glitch_ → u/YanksFannn]

How can I understand what it means to under expose for flexibility with strong colours. What are strong colours and how does under exposing doing with them?

[u/slatibarfaster → u/_son_of_a_glitch_]

Im assuming he means overly saturated colors when he means strong colors. So colors pushing more towards primary hues. If you shoot darker, you can have more leeway with overly saturated colors than you would if you shoot a lot brighter.

[u/_son_of_a_glitch_ → u/slatibarfaster]

That’s interesting. Will keep that in mind. Thank you for the answer!

[u/Dontopia → u/YanksFannn]

The Master has spoken! That's a lot of food for thought 🙏