FUNDAMENTALS
Create mood with colour grading
Get inspired by movie production techniques and a new tool for Lightroom or Camera Raw
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Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer, based in Galway. He’s the author of The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC.
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Mood is one of the key factors that create impact in photos – and light and colour play a huge factor in setting the mood. If you look at the photograph’s close cousin, the movie, you can see the relationship even more clearly: sad scenes are often blue or green with darker tones, while happy scenes tend to have light and warmer hues, often yellows. Other movies have a limited colour scheme throughout, which sets the feel of the story. In the movie world, the processing work to achieve this is called colour grading.