First post with Luminar 4: Just purchased Luminar 4 and naturally I went to sky replacement first. I've included the original image. Would greatly appreciate comments and suggestions...

Sergo Loc: Washington State

Just purchased Luminar 4 and naturally I went to sky replacement first. I've included the original image.
Would greatly appreciate comments and suggestions for improvement especially from those who are using the program.
Thanks

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Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

The sky replacement feature is a lot of fun, as are some other features in the program, but I lost interest in the sky replacement feature pretty quickly myself. There is a bird in flight photographer here who is using it to good effect. What I have found is that there is often a lot of interesting detail in the skies in my photos that can be drawn out from the raw files. Raw files let us use a wider dynamic range and that means more interesting skies which are almost always so much brighter than landscape features are.

I like your image and would like to see it with the original sky. If you are starting with a raw file you may well be able to get a very interesting rendition of the original sky.

The night sky is really noisy, and the replacement operation has put stars on top of areas that are land and not sky.

Mike

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

I like the original sky better

Dr.Nikon Loc: Honolulu Hawaii

Luminary’s / Luminar and others require a little more expertise to blend with the original photos to make them
Undetectable when blended ..., just takes time and practice .....I will always try to use my RAW file sky’s first before replacing ...

steve L Loc: Waterville Valley, New Hampshire

Mmmmm, so where or where not, does this go from photography to digital art ?
Is it still photography ??
Are you a photographer or a digital artist ??
Just wondering this all out ??

Sergo Loc: Washington State

steve L wrote:

Mmmmm, so where or where not, does this go from photography to digital art?
Is it still photography ??
Are you a photographer or a digital artist ??
Just wondering this all out ??

I guess I'm not that deep Steve. I'm just trying to make a pretty picture to hang on my wall. I think the processing tools we have today just make it that much more fun.
By the way, I noticed you're from Waterville, I lived in Franconia for 12 years. I met my wife there and taught skiing at Cannon for a few years. I'm in Washington state now but I still miss New Hampshire.

Cheers

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Sergo wrote:

I guess I'm not that deep Steve. I'm just trying to make a pretty picture to hang on my wall. I think the processing tools we have today just make it that much more fun.
By the way, I noticed you're from Waterville, I lived in Franconia for 12 years. I met my wife there and taught skiing at Cannon for a few years. I'm in Washington state now but I still miss New Hampshire.

Cheers

Nothing wrong with that.

My apologies, I somehow didn't realize that the first image featured the original sky. Reading your post again now, I have no idea how I made that mistake.

Mike

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

I would not be disappointed with the original image.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Nothing wrong with having fun. One suggestion is make sure to choose a high quality replacement sky, and if necessary use noise noise reduction on it prior to inserting the sky.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I like your replacement work and subsequent processing.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very well done, Sergo.

Raptor

I like Luminar 4. I have only used the sky replacement feature when the original sky was totally boring. There are ways to mask out so you don't have replacement sky overlapping on the landscape. I like the way the night sky relit the picture. Good question, photography or digital art? The way you can use editing software these days, the lines are forever blurred.

Floyd2 Loc: Littletown WI

Both images are pleasing

crafterwantabe Loc: Mn

Nice

khildy Loc: Brownsburg, IN

Sergo wrote:

Just purchased Luminar 4 and naturally I went to sky replacement first. I've included the original image.
Would greatly appreciate comments and suggestions for improvement especially from those who are using the program.
Thanks

I like the second one but I'm afraid that leads me down the path, can you believe the photograph presented to you as fact.