Picture at Bridge 🐒

 

Hola everyone , How is your day going? This is Mayank Bali. Hope you all are taking covid precautions as number of covid cases are increasing these days. Follow all protocols and stay safe stay at home (if possible). Here comes my another post

This photo is of a bridge in Gurugram DLF Phase 3 near GuruDronacharya Metro Station (Yellow line) 🚈 . So i was looking for next location for taking pictures and I saw this bridge and it also seems not to be used much by public and nobody came there during the whole time, i must have spent around 15-20 minutes. Why i choosed a bridge for clicking pictures? Because I have seen other editors posting picture shoot at bridges and it seems convincing to me , so i thought to give it a try, but the results didn't came similar to them 🙂 but whatever I'm an android user so the picture can't be good everytime but it doesn't mean Android cameras don't have potential to click awesome pictures. But it needs more suitable lightning to their lens , so we have to use it accordingly and smartly to take out best pictures from it. This photo is also clicked by a tripod (A basic one) and a smartphone with a low angle.

As in the background we had a metro route going , so i waited metro to come and then clicking pictures. And I may had done this for 2-3 metro but when i checked the pictures the metro was not much visible in the picture because the bridge was hiding it , so I didn't waited for metro anymore 🙂. And kept clicking pictures so on till I realised I have spend a lot of time there and I have to go home also and do other day to day work also. Clicked 4-5 shots more and went to my home back.

Apart from this If you are a creator then I want to know which mobile phone do you people are using for clicking pictures and videos. Or which mobile phone works better for you?🧐

Editing Breakdown

1. Adobe Lightroom (Available on play store and Appstore ) :

First of all i did light correction. As the original picture was a bit darker I increased its brightness and shadows by a small value. 

Then i did Colour grading by using colour mix tool, changed the yellow colour to some of little golden - yellow colour to make the sunlight golden. Changed the red colour to a little brownish so the bridge looks like an old kind of bridge. Then i choosed the blue colour as there was a lot of blue colour there in the picture the sky the jeans , etc and increased its saturation

Then i increased vignette but by a small number in the picture increased its feather and roundness too, so to make the borders darker and with a smooth transition.Then i took a radial gradient and put it over the sun and reduced it dehaze so that the source of light becomes softer at the bridge's edge 

Tip - While saving the image don't use save to device option and either use "Export as" and set it to largest available dimensions for better quality and then export it as a preset, so in future if you want to know what you had edited in a photograph , you can simply check it by adding picture to the lightroom afterwards. 

2. Snapseed (Available on play store and Appstore ) : 

Then we came to blurring background but similar to previous post this was also not looking good , so I choosed a low value for it. Using Lens blur tool - changing its vignette and transition to zero and blur strength to a of 5. Then using brush i reduced the blur effect in descending order to make it look more real.Then I did skin smoothning using lens blur option Changing its vignette and transition to null and blur strength of around 5-6 and then going to view edits > lens blur> brush and painted it on my face except eyes, nose, eyebrows , mouth ,etc so it don't blur the whole face 🙂 and just soften the skin

Tip: For better output quality click 3 dots , go to settings , look for format and quality and choose the value 100%

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