[Leica] Sky Replacement

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

How does it make a difference. as long as you enjoy it, and as long as it
is not seen under false pretences? After all, in all other forms of
artistic endeavour, no restrictions are placed on, or, indeed, accepted by
the artist. I have never understood why photographers are constantly shamed
by their peers to labour under a different rule. My guess is that we place
these restrictions on ourselves because anybody can be technically
proficient, given  endless practice and learning by rote, while a very
miniscule percentage of photographers can be imaginative enough to be
artistic, or original.

IMHO, the first person to take advantage of this technical wizardry that is
available at our fingertips today would have been Adams himself, with his
penchant for plenty of manipulation in the darkroom. He would have reveled
in it. Most of us use Photoshop (or any other PP software) to a far lesser
extent.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:40 PM Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:

> Oh great... now everyone will be making (not taking) Ansel Adamesque
> pictures on a sunny day.
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:45 Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Atomic post - mind the fallout ;-)
> >
> > But might prove handy in some cases
> >
> > Amities
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
> > > Le 30 oct. 2020 ? 20:42, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
> > ?crit :
> > >
> > > The Photoshop update last week (v. 22.0) includes a sky replacement
> > feature, something I'm not really interested in but of course I had to
> try
> > it.  It would be great for real estate photographers, though.  This is a
> > pano I took at Ghost Ranch in 2015, with a sky from Ghost Ranch taken 20
> > years earlier.  Also I see the update includes "neural filters" so you
> can
> > make someone smile or frown etc.  I'm guessing that Adobe has pretty much
> > run out of features for the average photographer.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Ghost+Ranch.jpg.html
> > >
> > >
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