The #1 MISTAKE in COLOR Photography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2024
- By now you know I really enjoy working with color, color theory, and color grading. I have spent the better part of the last 8 years devoted to the topic of Color Theory for Photographers. Through those years I would like to say I have seen it all, but I am still open to surprises :)
One mistake I see very often in either my critique sessions or in photos I see online is the misuse of saturation. Saturation is not a bad thing, and quite frankly you SHOULDN'T avoid it in your work. But you should know how to work with it.
In today's tutorial, I will show you the #1 mistake I see in colorwork and how you can avoid making it!
►Chapter◄
00:00 Introduction
00:23 #1 Mistake when using color
01:35 Painting Demonstration
04:15 Adding Value to Saturation
06:42 Saturation and Portrait Photography
10:21 Using Complementary Colors
13:53 How to Avoid Over Saturation
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Finally, someone who really teach how to work with colors. Not just saying to mess with the sliders.
Thanks!
I’ve grown so much in my editing since I started watching your videos. Keep it going I literally watch all your videos.
WOW! Even the bad ones ;)
Thanks so much for your support, it means so much to me to read this!
Wow. Blake, that painting example just opened my eyes and makes me understand the color sliders better yet again! Thanks a lot man.
SWEEET! So glad the demo helped!
Wow! I really appreciate your approach to colour grading, you have a knack for simplifying the concepts while also touching on tools that in my experience many photographers avoid using fully. Thank you!
Wow, thanks!
I've been missing a very important factor on color correction with my photos the whole entire time. this is one amazing tutorial you got here, therefore I am looking for more of your videos. Cheers to that illustrative example of actual paints you got there not everyone's doing it.
😁 thanks! I appreciate your kind words and support! I have a metric ton if videos here about color and color theory, enjoy!
@@f64Academy sure will check on 'em, thanks man!
Undoubtedly the best tutor for photoshop color grading.. Just like to study posing, we have to look at the painting masters. And I know all the top Photoshop tutors on TH-cam.
Wow! Thank you so much 😁 that means a lot. You really just made my day.
Another great show by example video, Blake. We keep coming back and there's always something new to look forward to. Thank you.
Another great color video, Blake. I found the connection between tube paint and the digital world very helpful for understanding the Selective Color adjustment layer. My 'Blake's color theory' video playlist just keeps growing longer!
😁♥️ I love it ! Painting taught me so much about color in photography, glad I realized I sucked at painting and took up something I'm good at 🤣🤣
This was excellent. So simple in concept and explained so professionally. Thumbs up for sure!
This is the clearest explanation on this subject I've watched. Great work!
Awesome! So glad you found it 😁
Blake,
This is so useful, and timely. Thanks for doing through the details.
I got an email notice today from MattK about some tutorials.
In the email was the link to a video he did thanking you for helping him when he decided to strike out on his own after On1.
An important part of the story was his congratulating you on your retirement from the USAF.
During all the years I've followed you from the early HDR days, I never had a hint that you were a member of the military.
Congratulations on your successful career and retirement.
And, thank you for your service.
Best wishes for the future. Looking forward to more great content on f64 Academy.
Thanks so much David! Yep, I kept it quiet from the TH-cam audience because, well, situational awareness and cyber security are of utmost importance when you are in the service. I did let it out more recently to the f.64 Elite audience, but only sparingly.
I appreciate you and your kind remarks, David!
Blake you continue to provide valuable tutorials...explaining things that the others don't....Although I have been experimenting with selective color...your tutorial served to reinforce the nature of its powers....and highlighted things that I have missed...Thank You..!!!
Really love how you used paint to illustrate this for us! Along with breaking down the idea and process in an easy to follow lesson. Great video as always Blake.
Thanks, Brian! I figured, I talk about it enough, I should probably show it :)
Excellent work again Blake. I cannot tell you how much my confidence in working with colour has grown since following your tutorials. I now use so many of your colour/tonal techniques to process my images; even my wildlife work. For someone who was born into a black & white world, my colour learning has grown exponentially and greatly assisted by using your PE4 plugin. I still have so much to learn and continue to strive to get the best out of what I do. Like yourself, I spent my whole working life serving the in the military & law enforcement, when I didn't have time to 'stand and stare'. But now I do. And thanks to your invaluable efforts, I now see the power of colour in my finished images and my photography in general. Keep up the good work.....
Thanks Blake, always look forward to these very, very great videos...thanks again...
Another amazing tutorial....you are truly a master. Thanks a ton Blake.
As always, you are the master of colors! Thanks Blake for great color lesson.
My pleasure! I love Color :)
You got it daddy
Excellent and informative tutorial, I hadn’t considered adjusting colour that way and will definitely help my work flow. I’ll certainly be checking out your other colour tutorials, thank you!
Awesome! Glad you found this helpful. Please take a look around at the other tutorials 😁
You make color easy to understand, thank you. On a side note, I loved Matt’s story about you and want to thank you so much for your service.
Thanks, Judy! It means a lot to me 😁
Best video I have seen on color! Color right out of the tube was a huge help, great visual. Thank you for helping it finally click in my head!🤦♀️😆
Awesome! So glad that helped !
Another brilliant tutorial, will be an interesting way to adjust my photo colour editing in future, thanks
I've been looking for this solution for ages now, can't believe it was so easy to get better saturation. Thank you! Subscribed
Glad it helped! Thanks for the sub ;)
Watched a year ago and lost the concept in my workflow. I need to work with this as it’s powerful. Thanks again for your excellence.
Yes, that painting example was so great. Thank you very much for that.
Absolutely!
Wow this was great. 1st and best explanation on color I’ve seen in years.
Wow, thank you! That means so much to me!
Awesome tutorial!!
For 2 years I have been wondering & looking for this.
I knew their had to be a better way to save the saturation while adjusting the color intensity!!
So glad you found it!
Blake, congratulations on your retirement and every wish for an even better future than you may have imagined! I want to thank you, also, for the wonderful way you have of explaining things so that they will be understood and therefore not forgotten. You've been instrumental in helping me create images I'm proud to share.
That's incredible to read! Wow! Thanks so much. I really do appreciate your encouragement and kind words!
This is so helpful! Thank you for your lesson!
Sending this one to my buddy who teaches painting. His big thing is working with values to create the color palettes.
This video was absolutely amazing. Thank you!
Outstanding explanation with accompanying demonstrations. Very clear presentation. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching :)
Awesome video. I loved how you used examples with painting to really make the point to stick.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice tricks! Thanks Blake. Altering the colors can be difficult when editing photos sometimes.
Perfectly and clearly explained !! Good job !! Thanks !!
Thanks 😁 I appreciate it!
Wow what an incredible and helpful video. Loved the paiting demostration. You, Sir, are a Master. Thank you for this.
Thanks so much, that really means the world to me 😉
Excellent. A tip we don't see everywhere, congrats !
Thanks 😁
What an amazing video. Love the paint example! Great job!
Thank you so much 😀 Means a lot to me!
Thank you! An expert in colors and the passion to teach.👍🏼
😁 thanks! I do love color theory!
Super helpful! Using the paint made it really easy to understand. Great video!!
Awesome! Glad it helped 😁
Very well explained, I love watching your tuts on color grading
Happy to hear that! Color Grading is my favorite part of the workflow.
Never seen colour explained like this before. This is very useful. Thanks.
😁 glad it helped!
I actually figured this stuff out after being sick and tired of weird skin tones. great vid!
Thanks for the great information!
Have a nice weekend!
This is one of the best videos on color I’ve seen. Subbed!
Wow! Thanks so much 😁
Wow wow. So incredibly helpful. Thank you!
My sincere pleasure!
A very good lesson. I have focused on using LR's HSL panel with some good effect, but the Selective Color is something I'll need to experiment with.
Blake is right, it's hilarious how some of my older colour processing was over the top. But the great thing about RAW files, and, for that matter, even jpegs, is
that non-destructive editing means you can always go back to the original with improved skill sets for better results.
I'm professional photographer and I find this video very helpful. Thanks!
Awesome! Glad you liked it 😁
You are the best Blake ! Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏😍😍😍😍
Best tip I've had in a long time. Thanks
Your best dissertation on color yet!
Thanks so much 😁
So clear and easy! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Wow, been searching for someone to explain this as well as you do. Thanks I love how you use the paint to explain. New subscriber here.
Awesome, thank you so much!
This is a very good idea. Thank you. I have done this many times before, but with other tools.
This is one of the best colour grading explanations I ever seen on TH-cam and I did watch a lot of videos! Definitely subscribe to your channel!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Whoop whoop! Thanks!
Beautifully explained, Thank You !
Thanks! My pleasure 😁
This is a great technique I am going to use for color grading videos! 👍👍 Thanks for sharing!
That would be a great way to use it :)
This is superb. I had a eureka moment watching this. Now I get it! Thanks Blake.
Glad it helped! Those moments are the best!
Super super super interesting. Looking forward to use this wonderful teachings on my next edits. Thank you so much buddy!
My sincere pleasure! Enjoy!
@@f64Academy I'll certainly will as it seems very effective and accurate :)
Excellent explanation as always! Thank you!
My pleasure!
One of the best trick to adjust color, thanks a lot for the video
My pleasure!
Thanks. This will be helpful. I wish we had selective color in Lightroom so we could copy a change to multiple images. Fighting the neon greens would be high on my list. Even without that, understanding that we can use lighter/darker colors will help using HSL panel in LR.
I did not know you paint. Great demonstration! Thank you!
I did! I also used to sculpt and make litho, wood cut and silk screen. A long time ago 😁 now just photography.
I can legit say no one does reviews like you do. Insightful tips that are vastly different from the generic tutorials on here.
Wow! Thanks so much 😁
Thanks for this tutorial Blake.
It's probably the most informative tutorial on Colour that I've ever seen and the most applicable and relevant to my photography business.
It would be great if you could do a part 2 and demonstrate these principles in Lightroom only.
Thanks again.
Thanks! The principles remain the same with HSL in LR, just no selective color.
@@f64Academy Thanks.
I’m not a big Photoshop user, but I was able to get some great results using what you spoke about with LR with HSL and masking. This makes me want to learn more about PS. Great video!
Woohoo! Stock around here, all I teach is Photoshop 😁
Excellent video, I know these principles when using paint, but hadn't figured out how to work with them in the digital world.
Thanks 😁 they translate very well actually.
Learned a lot from this one. Thank you
This is a great video, explains colour very well. Thanks.
Awesome! Glad you liked it !
well explained Blake, thanks!
Perfectly explained. Thank you.
Oh wow! Thanks :)
Very helpful. Thanks a lot!
Another great one. Thanks.
I like how you mentioned that your earlier work was saturation 100% - I think we've all been there. Having said that, I don't think the greens in the last photo needed any tweaks.
Thanks! If anything just look at it for demo purposes then 😁
great stuff. thanks for sharing!
Amazing tutorial. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Very good explanation.
Learned something.
Thanks
Glad to hear that!
Thanks for the great video. Nice to see this footbridge, local to me, used in a photography video on TH-cam.
One of the best video on this topic Thank you so much
Thanks so much 😁
Great video! Always hated increasing saturation as a whole as it always messed up some parts of the video, this is great
Glad you got something from it 😉
This technique is amazing! Thank You!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁
Thx alot for that eye opening explanation and demonstration of how colors work under the hood 👍 (also like #15 in the back 😄)
Heck yes! BEL15VE!
Amazing concept , thanks for sharing :)
Glad you liked it!
Man thanks soooo much! Golden info right here!💯🔥🔥
My pleasure 😁
Thanks a lot. Clear and accurate. love that
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful video, thank you for posting this!
My sincere pleasure!
Thanks again Blake! Very useful video
Glad you liked it!
Great tutorial thanks man
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. Learned a ton of stuff in this videos! You got a new sub :)
Woot! Thanks ☺️
Beautifully done I like the subtle changes
Thanks 😁
Super great video. Simple, straight forward and to the point! Now I need to hang a color wheel near my desk. LOL!
It is very helpful, I have several :)
Genius. Thank you so much. Following
Yes I see that so often in pictures --- oversaturation and oversharpening unless it is purposeful.
Thank you - very helpful.
This was a really great video, thank you! You’ve gained a sub!
Awesome! Thanks for your support!
Much appreciated. Alot of thanks from Uganda.
Very interesting and clearly articulated. 👍👍👍
Thanks so much! 😁
Brilliantly explained 👍🏻
😁 glad it resonated with you
Brilliant and so informative, equipping to develop skill rather than just showing a hack
I appreciate you for recognizing that 😁
Awesome! I've been looking for a good place to learn color theory.
Stick around!. It's my favorite topic!
Just subscribed. Wow. Truly appreciate the effort.
Thanks so much 😁