Depending on the use of tonality in the image, landscape photos can be spectacular or mediocre. If you don’t pay attention to the areas of brightness or what colors emerge, you could be at a loss. Tools for understanding brightness and adjusting brightness can help you improve your images.
Using the brightness of the subjects in your landscape photography image is a key component of getting your audience to focus on what has attracted their interest in the scene. A viewer’s eye is drawn to the brightest elements in a photo. In this video, Todd Dominy takes a closer look at luminance and tools for adjusting luminance in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Dominy began by explaining the difference between brightness and luminance, the latter being a quantitative value that can be measured. By working with brightness and colors, a photographer can have a highly targeted effect on which objects in the photo are bright.
Using the example of a rock against a bright sky, Domini demonstrates options in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to target specific colors in an image to make them brighter. Using targeted adjustments, he can make the rock a more prominent subject in his scene.
Given the importance of directing the viewer’s eye through bright tones, I appreciated Domini’s comparison of brightness and brightness and how they differed. His demonstration of adjusting brightness through several tools was quite helpful.
