Hi konichiwa and welcome to this video. Today I show you how to create the
typical nice moody Instagram look in Lightroom.
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This is a question I was asked a lot from people
watching my Instagram channel or Instagram page whatever it's called.
I just been on a road trip through Sweden and through Norway and I posted a lot
of images and they had that kind of desaturated nice moody look that you see
a lot of times on Instagram and that's just one look I did for that set of
images. So I don't photograph always with that, for landscapes I use a different,
for underwater use a different and so on and so on but a lot of you we're
interested in how to create that look for your own images. So I show you. Let's
get on the computer. As you can see I just flipped into Lightroom and there
are plenty of images I took in Sweden and they all have that kind of look so
let's start with let's choose some image and as you can see all the images are
kind of yeah same moody look already so it won't work with like every image but
it has to have a certain look already a certain feeling and the image itself has
to be cool by itself. Then the look can get a bit more. You cannot just go like
sit inside your living room take a selfie of your face with the bad
lightening and everything and then apply the same look that I just created and it
will look shit because the image itself is not from a good quality or anything.
And this is not a high-end camera here I photographed all the images you have
just seen with the a6000 and with a 12 millimeter 12 2.0 lens from Samyang.
I think in America it's called Rokinon or something. I'm not sure about that so
it's quite cool lens, very small kit and perfectly for just travel
photos or anything. Okay let's start with this image here I just reset everything
so this is the image how it looked just coming out of the camera. As you can see
I photographed raw as well. It's not necessary to shoot raw but it's better
to shoot raw because you have more information as well with the look so
with the white balance or anything. With the JPEG it will fastly look not that
cool anymore with a raw you're just more space to work with. Okay the first thing
I will do to apply the dreamy moody look is I will go down here into the camera
calibration it's down here and there I will just put the saturation a bit down.
Here in the blue slider and the green as well and bit desaturated and the red as
well a bit desaturated. Then I go on the blue slider and just slide the blue
slider to the left, so all the way to the left and what happens then is that all
the colors get a bit shifted that is kind of cool. Because now everything that
was green before we can just pull it back everything but that was green
before is now kind of red yellowish and everything that was blue before is now
kind of baby blue cyan light blue. You will see better with a playing blue sky
but in this image there is kind of feeling right now. So this is kind of the
first thing I would do for certain look. You can as well put other sliders up
it's just totally up to your taste and as I mentioned not every look fits
to every image you have to try out and just pull the sliders a bit. The second
thing I will do I will also play a bit with a different color sliders and
there's no way in right or wrong you can bring them more up or more down. I will
just play a bit with the sliders and then look which one looks best.
Something like this so everything is a bit desaturated
but there's not a formula or anything for that. Just try it out and see what
looks for your taste but the main thing is just be saturated a bit more.
Why I don't desaturate this part is pretty easy. I don't touch any of these
sliders. Because when I start to touch those sliders and then I just apply it
as a preset or just synchronize all my images I took from a day or from a week
even from a month then every image has a different white balance.
Every image has a different contrast may be different blacks, different white and for
example if this image is too dark I will pull the slide is different than with
another other image like this which is a bit brighter or anything so I don't just
change those sliders. But what I can change is I can change the curve so I
will bring the curve the contrast curve here a bit up so the highlights an all
bit up and the image gets a bit brighter and the second thing I do is I just
bring that thing here bit down. You can see. But not all the way down like an
s-curve so that gets a lot of contrast I just fix it like here in the middle. So I
actually can just click on the line. You see that small end line here I can just
click it like this. And then I take the blacks so all the leftern
corner the small dot and then I just drag it out then there's a bug in
Lightroom it will just do it like this. That's stupid I have no idea why it does
like this. So I don't want to have it like this I just click now somewhere
next to it then gets back and then I can drag it like this. So I just want to
bring it a bit up and on with a hard curve I want to have soft line here like
a small up raised black ass curve. That's what it's called yeah and that's actually
the look. So now the look is done. You can make some more adjustments you can now
even say yeah want more saturation or less saturation in the image that's just
totally up to you. But that's the base I start with and then from that other
looks can be created so let's do it like this. I just take yeah maybe that image
that is actually the same shot but just from a few meters more away so I just
reset that thing, that's what it looked before.
And then I just go in this, just hit shift and mark both and go on
synchronize then I just synchronize them and as mentioned no white balance, no
anything from the other top thing should be synchronized. And then the second
image gets the same look. And as you can see here it's much darker so in this image
now let's click on this image back in this image now I would put maybe the
shadows a bit up. But in this image I haven't changed anything the shadows so
I won't change that. So every image has to have some fine adjustments but the
base from the look is usually the same. Okay that's how I would create a look for
Instagram or that kind of moody Instagram look. Hope you enjoyed.
This was how to create the epic moody Instagram look or at least how to create any look so
just give it your own taste, your own style, your own flavour in the look and
create your own baby. Your own thing so maybe other people will ask how do you
create that nasty thing? If you are interested in more videos subscribe to
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