5 simple tips to edit your photo attractive and dark moody

      A dark moody photo is a combination of the light tone with good subject with perfect background. It gets your viewers attention by your moody colour tone and looks different. 

     Basically, In photography moody means it looks little darker and low lighting. It makes your photo more attractive and more classic. It also involves colour grading but, here we simply see only with colour correction.

     We will see with some example image, then you can understand easily.


Example image for moody tone


Example image for moody tone

Table of contents :-

  • Use low exposure or brightness
  • Use your shadows darker
  • Adjust whites with blacks
  • Use dark vignette
  • Try to reduce saturation


This is the image we considered for editing

Use low exposure and brightness

     

     Using low exposure or brightness make your photo low and much more darker. It is not compulsory you need to do it, it vary according to the picture light. If the picture is more brighter try to reduce exposure and brightness.

Make your shadows darker

     

     Shadows gives details and also it helps to make something dark by reducing it. Reducing shadows is really helpful to make your photo much darker and keep concentrate because shadows can reduce exposure light in the picture, especially in hair, face, shoulder etc.

Adjust whites with blacks



     I think most of the editing software or apps having the adjustment whites and blacks, if it is not leave it, but if it is there you should try to combine white with black.
For example :- If a picture is more lighter, reduce black and reduce white or the picture is more darker raise the blacks and whites according to the light condition.

Use dark vignette



     Vignette is a important tool for moody tone editing. Use your vignette to make the corners of your photo dark, it gives a uniqueness and give viewers attention to the centre of the image. But, don't use too much of vignette at corners it may not give the nature effect, it looks weird and artificial. Using mild vignette according to the picture is better.

Try to reduce saturation



     We know reducing saturation is makes the picture colourless but, we need to know that saturation can also help to make moody grey tones. 

     It is not compulsory to use but take it as a option and reduce mildly according to picture colour. If the picture is in contrasting colour you can avoid it.


Conclusion

     This is not compulsory that you need to do this things, it's just an idea and a overall basic concept that you can understand to make your photos moody and more rich darker.
     Here I gave very simple tips that you can easily understand and use it. It is not a transformation, these tips are little ideas that you can involve while you edit your photos.

     I  hope you like this blog post ideas and if you have any doubt contact us. Try these tips and share your experience with me and check our other blog post to know more about photography and cinema.

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