Hello and good day. On October 9th, I was hired by UniKL RCMP to be one of the photographers for Memory Walk and Open Day UniKL RCMP 2016. I was hired through Kamal & Co, a freelance company led by my friend, Kamal. This is the second time I covered the event, with the former year being just for fun.
Memory Walk is a public awareness event organized by The Dementia Society Perak and Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine Perak. The objective of the event is to raise awareness about dementia, a type of mental illness caused by brain disease or injury which is characterised by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. The participants will walk throughout a 6 km track crossing through various places starting from UniKL RCMP to The Dementia Society Perak building and ends back at the college.
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| Picture by www.rcmp.unikl.edu.my |
But I'm not going to write about Memory Walk 2016 today. Instead, I want to write about a new technique of post-processing I learned from that day. Throughout the day, I took many photos and do post-processing (editing) like I always do when I returned home. One interesting thing to note is that I was able to create a more vibrant, blue-sky while editing some of the photos. Here are some example (note that the left side is before editing and right side is after editing):
Beautiful, isn't it? From dull,plain white sky after shot and I turned it to a more vibrant sky. Looking at it makes me feel like wow much beauty, such awesome doge loves photography XD.
Okay, now I'm going to tell you how I do this so that you can try it out yourselves later. Note that the photo must be shot in RAW-format or it won't work at all. I'm sure you can ask me or the photographers later or find it on the internet about why it needs to be in RAW-format. I can't write here, too long you know.
Using the RAW photo, open it in Adobe Lightroom and look at the HSL/Color/BW section. You will see there are several different color with its HSL(Hue-Saturtion-Luminance) modifiers bar. That is what I used to create the above effect. Let us take a look at this photo:
To make the sky in this photo from all-white (before) to blue sky with clouds (after), I modified the Saturation and Luminance of Blue and Aqua HSL modifiers, as shown on the right sidebar. This will differentiate the color of the sky from the clouds. Now let us take a look at the other photo:
I used the same method as above but I also modified the Purple HSL modifiers. This is because after I used the Blue and Aqua HSL modifiers, the color of the clothes the participants are wearing turned light blue. To counter that, I used the Purple HSL modifiers as shown above.
In short, to create the blue sky effect, you will need to use the HSL modifiers in HSL/Color/BW section in Adobe Lightroom. There is no specific range for the modifiers to do this effect. It will be up to you to manipulate it to get your preferred result. Besides, this is my first time discovering it so there are flaws and imperfections in the pictures above. Well, never to late to learn, eh? There are always room for improvements. Will improve more on post-processing later.
If you have any comments/questions/suggestions, leave it at the Comment section below and I'll try to get back to you. Of course, if you want to hire me as your photographer, kindly contact the freelance company I worked, Kamal & Co at kamalcophotography@gmail.com.
That's all for now. Thank you for your time.
P.S.: ignore any typos you find. I'm quite sleepy when typing this.
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