[Leica] Luminar 4

[Douglas Barry]

Jayanand,
I tend to agree with Philippe that the enhanced background is a little 
too exciting for the birds, but then again I looked at the first shot 
first too. Trying to be objective about the first one colouring my 
opinion of the second shot is close to impossible after the event, but, 
in truth, it probably does.

Douglas
who is waayyyy behind in the LUG images and likely to be so for a couple 
of weeks


On 23/11/2019 10:01, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Philippe,
> Is that because I posted the "Before" example as well? What if you just saw
> the sky replaced example on a stand alone basis?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 2:09 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Good stuff on the background. But the process kills the light on the birds
>> and the overall balance as a result. I’d selectively give the whites a
>> crank on the birds to set them out again.
>>
>> Amities
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 23 nov. 2019 à 05:53, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
>>> I have been fiddling along with Luminar 4 the past few days, seeing it
>> as a
>>> valid replacement for the Nik Suite, thanks to DXO making no improvements
>>> in the latter since they took over, and just making it more expensive and
>>> cumbersome. Luminar is also developed by the same group who developed
>> Nik,
>>> and started this for the MAC initially, but for Windows as well since,
>>> after selling Nik out to Google.
>>>
>>> They have a wonderful sky replacement tool, called AI Sky Enhancer, which
>>> almost perfectly figures out where the sky ends and land/water begins in
>> a
>>> photograph, and adds a sky of our choice. There are canned skies, but we
>>> can add our own to the library as well, with a menu of adjustments that
>> can
>>> be done, including colour temperature and defocus, for a natural feel.
>>>
>>> For example, I captured this unusual shot of a Black-browed Albatross and
>>> Giant Petrel flying in tandem on the Southern Atlantic Ocean last month,
>>> but had a horrible plain background:
>>>
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812.jpg.html
>>> After tweaking it a bit in AI Sky Enhancer, I ended up with this:
>>>
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/SGF/South+Georgia/South+Georgia-20191026-11812sky.jpg.html
>>> All in all, all the tools in Luminar 4 work very well, especially the AI
>>> ones (there are many more), and it is well worth giving it a trial run!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
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