Lovely Blue Hour COLOR GRADING with Lightroom Classic

In this #Adobe #Lightroom Classic #Tutorial I’m showing you the blue hour color grading process in detail.

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0:00 Intro
Blue hour photography is a very cool photography niche. This kind of photography works really well with beautiful architecture in the foreground which gets hit by artificial lights because of the color contrast between the yellow tones of the lights and the blue tones of the sky. However, your raw photos might look strange out of camera, so this video is here to help you color grad your blue hour pictures.

For this photo, I wanted to make the blue sky in the background a lot darker while the lighthouse in the foreground keeps it brightness. For both color tones I wanted to push the saturation and thus get this nice contrast between the blue background the yellow light house. Everything here (except for the removal of objects) was done in Adobe Lightroom Classic, so the editing should be very easy.

0:39 1. Basic Adjustments
I started by changing the camera profile to Adobe Standard which gives me a little more control over the contrast and the colors. Since the white balance of the original raw was good already, I didn’t adjust that. To continue, I dropped the exposure slightly as well as the highlights. Then, I raised the shadows and the whites. For extra sharpness I added texture. Finally, I added vibrance to bring back some saturation to the blue hour photo.

2:45 2. Local Adjustments
Now it’s time to darken the sky. Here I used a graduated filter over the sky. Of course this will also affect the lighthouse in the center (which I don’t want to darken) so to fix that I used a color range mask and targeted the specific blue tones of the background I wanted to change. Once that was set up, I dropped the exposure, the shadows and introduced stronger blue tones by dropping the temperature.

4:35 3. Color Grading
In the HSL panel I dropped the saturation of all the colors except for yellow, orange and blue which I pushed a little bit. For the split toning I added a warm tone to the highlights and a cold tone to the shadows.

Видео Lovely Blue Hour COLOR GRADING with Lightroom Classic канала Christian Möhrle - The Phlog Photography