Small Firefighter Helper – Colors and Textures on the Photo

Interesting colors and textures on the image allow the viewer to stay longer on your work. In this post I will show you how to make cool textures on your photos and how to develop colors and textures during post-processing with Lightroom.

Location

I took this picture on the same trip to Salzburg that I described in previous post. The “Old Town” of this city is located directly below the castle and is completely in medieval style. But civilization can’t be completely suppressed, so I found this hydrant on the wall of an old house. First of all I was interested in its unusual aquamarine color. I haven’t seen blue hydrants before, it’s amazing

Textures on the old door
F9 – 1/80s – ISO500 50mm

Tip 1: Pay attention to details and textures

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Equipment and Settings

On the day I had only my Canon 600D with Canon EF 1.8 / 50 II Lens. This is a great lens for only $100. The sky was overcast and the whole city was in fog. That is why no direct sunlight was on the hydrant and the light was very soft. I really wanted that the structure of the wall is sharp to see in the picture. I put in AV-Mode, the aperture F9 and ISO 100, the camera calculated the shutter speed to 1/100, which is short enough to photograph from hand. For this picture I used rule of thirds and placed the hydrant in the first third and for balancing the pot with the dying plant to the right. Below the camera settings and RAW image:

Shutter speed: 1/100
Aperture: f9
ISO: 100

Tip 2: Set aperture between 7 – 11 for sharp background

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Post-Processing

For post-processing of RAW-image I usually use Adobe Lightroom. It’s very cool and easy software to develop your images from RAW to JPG format. To make textures really sharp I sat exposure and contrast up, and highlights down. For the plant I used radial filter with own settings. All of my setting you can see in the image below: