{"slug":"dark-tones-magic","title":"暗黑的魔力！为什么摄影大神们都喜欢用暗调？","author":"Thomas看看世界","date":"2020-07-05","wechat":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI4NDA5MzE5NQ==&mid=2247490876&idx=1&sn=0f7171dd8f9de9bc015b0cd22cde9806&chksm=eb81e358dcf66a4e0c0780cf17d427ccdbdf90ef3e3e53ead3082adeb051d9c3b94cc54b6df2&scene=21#wechat_redirect","blocks":[{"t":"h","x":"Thomas看看世界","xe":"Thomas Chu Photo"},{"t":"p","x":"暗调照片指的是照片整体（特别是背景）偏暗，直方图大量像素堆积在左侧的照片。","b":false,"xe":"A dark-toned photo is one whose overall tone (especially the background) leans dark, with most pixels piled up on the left side of the histogram."},{"t":"p","x":"如果看过Thomas以前推荐优秀摄影师的文章，或许大家会发现一个问题，那就是相当多的摄影师都喜欢把照片处理成暗调。","b":false,"xe":"If you have read Thomas's earlier articles recommending outstanding photographers, you may have noticed one thing: quite a lot of them love processing their photos into dark tones."},{"t":"p","x":"暗调照片究竟为什么在美感上如此吸引人？背后的原理究竟是怎样的呢？","b":false,"xe":"Why exactly are dark-toned photos so aesthetically appealing? What is the principle behind it?"},{"t":"p","x":"今天的视频，Thomas就会和大家剖析暗调画面的独特魅力。","b":false,"xe":"In today's video, Thomas breaks down the unique charm of dark-toned imagery."},{"t":"h","x":"视频教程","xe":"Video tutorial"},{"t":"bili","bv":"BV1RK411n7TF","bpic":"bili-1","bt":"暗调照片的魔力！为什么摄影大神们都喜欢用暗调？"},{"t":"p","x":"这一篇是上面视频的图文整理。Thomas 在这期 9 分钟的口播里回答了一个很多网友都发现的问题：为什么从 Instagram 的流行作品到萨尔加多、卡什、罗伯特·弗兰克、杉本博司这些经典大师，大多数让人过目不忘的照片都偏暗？他把答案总结成三条——暗调层次更丰富、情绪更多样、能隐去杂物让主次分明——并配上了视频里的关键帧截图，方便先看图文再看视频。","xe":"This is the illustrated companion to the video above. In this 9-minute talk Thomas answers a question many followers had noticed: from trending Instagram work to classics by Salgado, Karsh, Robert Frank and Sugimoto, why do so many unforgettable photos lean dark? He distills the answer into three points — dark tones carry richer tonal levels, express more moods, and hide clutter so the subject stands out — paired here with keyframe screenshots so you can skim first, then watch.","b":false},{"t":"p","x":"先看总览。下面这张总结卡截自视频 7:43 处，三条要点就是全片的骨架：丰富的层次细节、多样的情绪表达、隐去杂物主次分明。","xe":"Start with the overview: this summary card, captured at 7:43 in the video, lists the three pillars of the whole talk — rich levels and detail, a wide range of moods, and hiding clutter for clear hierarchy.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v01","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"01 暗调藏着更丰富的层次","xe":"01 Dark Tones Hide Richer Levels"},{"t":"p","x":"第一点最反直觉：暗调照片不是黑漆漆一片，反而往往层次和细节更丰富。视频开头那排大师作品——萨尔加多的企鹅、卡什的丘吉尔肖像（视频 0:43 处）、罗伯特·弗兰克的街头、杉本博司的海景——全都偏暗，直方图像素堆积在左侧，但没有任何一张是「看不清的」。","xe":"The first point is the most counterintuitive: a dark-tone photo is not a black void — it often carries richer levels and detail. The masters' works lined up at the start of the video — Salgado's penguins, Karsh's Churchill portrait (at 0:43), Robert Frank's streets, Sugimoto's seas — all lean dark with histograms piled on the left, yet not one of them is hard to read.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v03","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"Thomas 用一张 21 级灰阶图来解释原因（视频 2:44 处）——每两个相邻色块的亮度差都是 15，但暗部相邻色块的边界肉眼清晰可辨，亮部同样相差 15 的两块却几乎看不出分界。这是人眼的视觉特性：我们对暗部的亮度差异敏感得多。","xe":"Thomas explains why with a 21-step grayscale strip (at 2:44 in the video): every adjacent pair differs by the same 15 levels of brightness, yet in the shadows the boundary is clearly visible while the equivalent bright pair shows almost no edge. It comes from how human vision works — we are far more sensitive to brightness differences in the dark range.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v05","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"他以自己一张桂林山水作品现场验证（视频 3:30 处）：保持反差不变，只把直方图从左侧搬到右侧，做成亮调版本——山的层次、雾的过渡、树的细节立刻逊色不少。同样的照片、同样的对比度，暗调版本看起来就是「更有内容」。这也是为什么这么多画家和摄影师偏爱暗调——背后是有科学原理的（视频 4:10 处为亮调对比）。","xe":"He verifies it live on one of his own Guilin landscapes (at 3:30 in the video): keeping the contrast identical, he moves the histogram from the left side to the right to make a bright-tone version — and the mountain layers, fog transitions and tree detail visibly lose substance. Same photo, same contrast, yet the dark version simply looks richer. That is why so many painters and photographers favor dark tones — there is real science behind it (the bright version follows at 4:10).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v06","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v07","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"02 一种暗调 多种情绪","xe":"02 One Dark Tone, Many Moods"},{"t":"p","x":"第二点：暗调能表达的氛围和情绪非常多。萧瑟破败可以用它，孤独可以用它，安静柔和可以用它，神秘独特可以用它，甚至恐怖——想一想有哪一部恐怖片是灯火通明、亮亮堂堂地讲完的？（视频 4:24 处为本节要点卡。）","xe":"The second point: dark tones can carry an enormous range of moods. Desolation, loneliness, quiet gentleness, mystery — even horror. Think of it this way: has any horror film ever unfolded in bright, even lighting? (The section card appears at 4:24 in the video.)","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v08","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"他连续展示了自己的多张作品：湖边独坐的人物剪影传递宁静（视频 4:48 处）；雨夜门洞里打伞的背影压抑而克制（视频 4:57 处）；路灯下牵狗夜归的行人温暖治愈；火烧云压暗后的雪山磅礴大气；再加上 Marc Adamus、Max Rive 这些魔幻风光派代表的作品——同样都是暗调，情绪却完全不同。低沉、压抑、神秘、魔幻、壮丽，暗调都撑得住。","xe":"He walks through several of his own images: a lone figure seated by a lake conveys serenity (at 4:48 in the video); a silhouetted umbrella under a rainy doorway feels subdued and restrained (at 4:57); a person walking a dog home under street lamps glows with warmth; snow peaks under darkened burning clouds turn majestic. Add in the magical-school landscapes of Marc Adamus and Max Rive — all dark tones, yet utterly different emotions. Somber, oppressive, mysterious, magical, grand: dark tones carry them all.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v09","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"03 隐去杂物 主次分明","xe":"03 Hiding Clutter, Clearing Hierarchy"},{"t":"p","x":"第三点最实用：暗调可以很好地隐去杂物，让画面主次分明。这一点在人像棚拍里最直观——拍有情绪的人像时，背景常常就是一块偏暗甚至全黑的底布，杂物和细节全被隐去，灯光照亮的地方就是主体，氛围感十足（视频 5:44 处为本节要点卡）。","xe":"The third point is the most practical: dark tones hide clutter and make the hierarchy obvious. Studio portraiture shows this most directly — moody portraits are shot against a dark, sometimes pure-black backdrop that swallows every distraction, and whatever the light touches becomes the subject, full of atmosphere (the section card appears at 5:44 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v10","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"风光摄影同理。一张冰岛冰河湖的原片非常普通（视频 6:48 处），用暗调处理后，该暗的地方暗下去、该亮的地方亮起来，冰山从灰蒙蒙的水面里「浮」了出来，主次一下子分明，画面干净、神秘而舒服（视频 6:58 处为暗调版）。","xe":"The same logic applies to landscapes. A raw frame from an Icelandic glacier lagoon is thoroughly ordinary (at 6:48 in the video); after a dark-tone treatment, what should be dark sinks and what should be bright rises, the iceberg emerges from the gray water, and the image turns clean, mysterious and pleasing (the dark version at 6:58).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v11","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v12","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"更巧妙的是，压暗还能代替「擦除」。云太抢眼，可以仿制图章 P 成光板天，但更自然的做法是把云压暗；两侧灌木抢视线，不必用仿制图章去掉，压暗即可让它们的视觉吸引力大幅减弱；天空压暗之后，被阳光照亮的山体自然被突出（视频 7:32 与 7:40 处为一组前后对比）。明暗的分别，就是主次的分别。","xe":"Cleverer still, darkening can replace erasing. When clouds are too loud you could clone-stamp them into a clean sky, but darkening them is far more natural; when bushes on both sides steal the eye, you need not remove them — darkening alone cuts their visual pull; and darkening the sky makes the sunlit mountain stand out on its own (a before/after pair at 7:32 and 7:40 in the video). The difference between light and dark becomes the difference between subject and background.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v13","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"img","f":"v14","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"quote","x":"1. 暗调不等于死黑——人眼对暗部差异更敏感，同样反差下暗调照片的层次显得更丰富；2. 暗调能承载的情绪极广：宁静、神秘、压抑、温暖、魔幻、壮丽都可以用低调来表现；3. 压暗是最自然的「去除法」——隐去杂物、突出受光主体，让照片主次分明。下次调色，不妨先把照片往暗调方向试一试。","xe":"1. Dark tone is not dead black — human eyes are more sensitive to shadow differences, so at equal contrast a dark-tone photo simply looks richer in levels; 2. Dark tones carry an enormous emotional range — serenity, mystery, oppression, warmth, magic and grandeur all work in low key; 3. Darkening is the most natural way to erase — hide clutter, spotlight the lit subject, and the hierarchy falls into place. Next time you grade a photo, try pushing it toward low key first.","b":false},{"t":"h","x":"高清视频：","xe":"HD video:"},{"t":"p","x":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1RK411n7TF/","b":false,"xe":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1RK411n7TF/"},{"t":"h","x":"教程PPT","xe":"Tutorial slides (PPT)"},{"t":"img","f":"img-03","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-04","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-05","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-06","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-07","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-08","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-09","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-10","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-11","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-12","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-13","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-14","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-15","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-16","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-17","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-18","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-19","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-20","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-21","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-22","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-23","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-24","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-25","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-26","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-27","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-28","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-29","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-30","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-31","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-32","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-33","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-34","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-35","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-36","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-37","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-38","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-39","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-40","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-41","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-42","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-43","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-44","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-45","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-46","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-47","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-48","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"img","f":"img-49","w":1080,"h":608},{"t":"h","x":"相关教程：","xe":"Related tutorials:"},{"t":"p","x":"《暗调魔幻风格照片是如何后期的？Camera Raw几步搞定！》","b":false,"xe":"\"How to Post-Process Dark, Moody-Magic Style Photos? 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