Digital Darkroom
Aug 16, 2019 08:10:09 #
Aug 16, 2019 08:13:13 #
It’s your photo, do whatever you feel makes the photo appealing to you. You are the artist.
Aug 16, 2019 08:20:26 #
Ron 717 wrote:
It’s your photo, do whatever you feel makes the photo appealing to you. You are the artist.
Aug 16, 2019 08:26:14 #
Only do it if you can make it look real or natural. Otherwise, it could take away from the photo. Go for it!
Aug 16, 2019 08:50:44 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
You can photoshop anything into anything and if you’re good enough it will look natural. Maybe a bit bizarre but still natural.
Aug 16, 2019 08:58:13 #
Aug 16, 2019 09:35:03 #
Ron 717 wrote:
It’s your photo, do whatever you feel makes the photo appealing to you. You are the artist.
What Ron 717 said!
Aug 16, 2019 09:50:12 #
One of the early techniques used in the actual darkroom shortly after photography was invented was replacing skies.
Aug 16, 2019 16:33:06 #
My limit is that I shoot the sky myself, rather than using a plug in. We enjoy looking for new clouds to shoot when traveling even when the rest of the scene is not interesting. Easy to layer it in in Photoshop, several ways to approach it.
Aug 17, 2019 07:16:52 #
Good idea. Go wild! Make it nighttime with thunder and lightning. Change and save. Repeat.
Aug 17, 2019 08:27:50 #
Ron 717 wrote:
It’s your photo, do whatever you feel makes the photo appealing to you. You are the artist.
Agree
Aug 17, 2019 11:32:13 #
I recently attended a lecture by a renowned female landscape photographer. For one of her stunning images she camped out for 7 days waiting for the "right" sky. I don't have that luxury. I replace skies as needed but I'm careful to match the sky to the rest of the scene. That is, you don't want to use a backlit sky with a front lit foreground.
Aug 17, 2019 13:59:54 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
Back in my film days (uh oh, a geezer pontificating!) I used different colored filters to accentuate different aspects of my black and white photography. I think (it was a long time ago!) the red filter accentuated the clouds in the sky; using filters in film is a short distance from sky replacement (which I regularly do in my digital photography).
Aug 17, 2019 19:06:53 #
photoman022 wrote:
Back in my film days (uh oh, a geezer pontificating!) I used different colored filters to accentuate different aspects of my black and white photography. I think (it was a long time ago!) the red filter accentuated the clouds in the sky; using filters in film is a short distance from sky replacement (which I regularly do in my digital photography).
The B&W sky filters were yellow, orange, and red in order of strength. Now you can apply the effect of any of them when doing a B&W conversion. But you're still stuck with the clouds that were actually there, so if you don't like them, you can replace the sky.
Aug 19, 2019 08:14:30 #
ggenova64 wrote:
Hedgehoggers, What are the opinions of photoshopping in clouds for a lighthouse photo?
Post a sample before and after. Hard to comment on hypotheticals.
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