All language subtitles for Procolor_C08_L5a_Concept_Contrast

So contrast is just that.

It's the difference between the brightest
parts and the darkest parts of the image.

So any contrast would be on the left here

we're staring
pretty much directly at the sun,

which is about as bright as you can get.

And we have this dark
silhouette of our guy here.

And this is using up
pretty much the full range of brightness

that we can have in an image
from all the way bright white in the sun,

too, down here, pretty much close
to black for the shadows.

Same thing here on this side.

Pretty much all of the shadows
are crushed out here into black.

And we have a lot of the kind of grayish
skin tones here.

And then there's also some bright white
kind of blown out highlights.

So this is, again,
just maximized contrast.

And generally the higher contrast
you have, the more interesting

something is

it doesn't mean you should always
pump up your contrast, but things usually

look better when they take up
that full range of light to dark.

On the other side of things,
we have low contrast.

It's actually kind of hard to find low
contrast examples of nice photography

because people generally

don't like low contrast
because it just doesn't look as good.

So here

the difference between the brightest parts
and the darkest parts is a lot less.

We have some highlights here
and kind of the bouquet of the grass,

but about as dark as it gets

is probably right up here in this corner,
which is only 30 or 40% brightness.

Everything is
pretty much at gray or above.

So because there is
less of that dynamic range being taken up,

this is called low contrast.

And we have an interesting example
over here where we actually have quite

a bit of low contrast stuff
all around in the blankets and everything.

But then we have a really high contrast
plate here in the middle,

and this is actually really good
to illustrate

a point about contrast
is because contrast is more interesting.

You generally want your subject
to contrast with the rest of your shot.

So this coffee has this black ring.

Here we have the high contrast
of the white plate and the dark leaves.

This is obviously the subject of the shot,
whereas in this shot

everything is so low contrast,

it's kind of hard to figure out
what we're really supposed to look at.

I would say maybe this plant here
just because it's in focus.

And even though the contrast
isn't huge in the picture as a whole,

this is probably the highest contrast
piece of the picture here.

It's really easy to find our subject.

It's obviously this guy and obviously
her face and skin right here.

And so that is the basics of contrast.

It's the difference between the brightest
parts and the darkest parts in an image.