Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: haring on September 04, 2014, 09:49:48 am
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I am a wedding photographer based in Miami. I shoot a lot of beach weddings. The fact is that the sand is not white here. It is yellowish off white depending where you are. Some of my brides want me to make the sand white. How do you achieve this so it looks great?
I have tried to desaturate the sand however I just don't like how it looks. It looks muddy and not real. How do you achieve the white sand look without traveling to Micronesia....?
Thanks so much!
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Desaturate and lighten simultaneously? Yellow in particular.
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I am a wedding photographer based in Miami. I shoot a lot of beach weddings. The fact is that the sand is not white here.
Tell them you don't work miracles. You sub-contract those out.
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How do you achieve the white sand look without traveling to Micronesia....?
Move to White Sands NM], much closer! ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4Lc1XTXp8
OK for real. It's going to be a lot of work to selectively do this. You could desaturate or add 'blue' to counter the yellow sand but it will take a lot of effort to pull it off on lots of images.
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Move to White Sands NM], much closer! ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4Lc1XTXp8
OK for real. It's going to be a lot of work to selectively do this. You could desaturate or add 'blue' to counter the yellow sand but it will take a lot of effort to pull it off on lots of images.
Just look at hem like they are from Mars then change the subject.
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Take them to a studio with a white sand muslin?
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Desaturate and lighten simultaneously? Yellow in particular.
I have tried. The sands turned into a muddy white-ish mass. Not exactly what I wanted... :)
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Take them to a studio with a white sand muslin?
LOL! Great idea!
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Is sand somewhat like skin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75HTPz0xEw
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I am a wedding photographer based in Miami. I shoot a lot of beach weddings. The fact is that the sand is not white here. It is yellowish off white depending where you are. Some of my brides want me to make the sand white. How do you achieve this so it looks great?
I have tried to desaturate the sand however I just don't like how it looks. It looks muddy and not real. How do you achieve the white sand look without traveling to Micronesia....?
Thanks so much!
Living up in the Panhandle of Florida, I have all the white sand in the world and on many occasions because it tends to go blue-ish in the morning light, I have to over compensate and make mine a bit more toward the yellow-orange side. Since I had one of these finished, I've simply used it for an example at to one way you can make brown sand white. I used PS CS6 in my screen shots. This is a three minute edit at tops.
First, make a loose selection of the area you want to make white, second, make a vibrance adj layer and reduce vibrance significantly, next, feather the mask significantly. Last, make a curves adj layer, copy the vibrance layer mask, change the blend mode to screen, and now you have white sand.
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LOL! Great idea!
Bleach, lots and lots of bleach.