[Leica] Sky added

[Don Dory]

Times have changed, I used to wait for some clouds at late dusk to shoot 30
second shots to get skies like that.

Don
don.dory at gmail.com

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 10:01 PM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> I use the sky replacement now and then - in fact I started using Skylum
> Luminar because of this feature - they were a couple of years ahead of
> everyone else in offering this feature.
> The sky does not have to be very obvious or intrusive to work wonders - and
> I find it works better in architecture photographs than other subjects.
> Like HDR, it is a definite case where less is more, where all we need is
> some detail in an otherwise empty and flat negative space. Here are a few
> that I added a bit of sky to, as examples of the way I use sky replacement.
> The last two shots, from 2007, are unusual in the sense that they are taken
> with film, scanned and digitized, after which the sky was added in post
> processing:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Varanasi/Khajuraho/Panna+Z7-20230322-697-EditBW.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Varanasi/Khajuraho/Panna+Z7-20230322-594-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/Ladakh/Ladakh_20130903_0719.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/Ladakh/Ladakh_20130831_0188.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/taj/JG50Agra2+copy.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/fatehpur/JG14Fatehpur.jpg.html
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> Cheers
> Jayanand
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM Ric Carter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
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> > I agree, it’s much more accessible image.
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> > It’s hard for us old journalists to do these things, but like Cuz Sonny,
> > I’m learning to do it.
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> > I’ve taken to watermarking images I significantly alter as: Fauxtograff.
> > It admits what still feels like a lie.
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> > Ric
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> > > On Apr 20, 2025, at 11:34 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> > lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > > Looks much better, doesn't it?
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> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM Sonny Carter via LUG <
> > lug at leica-users.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> JLSeagull     Sony A7cr,  Sony 50mm f1.2, @ f1.2 1/4000, ISO 100
> > >> Sky added in Photoshop
> > >>
> > >> https://sonc.com/look/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DSC07178-12-web.jpg
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Sonny
> > >> www.SonC.Com/Look
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