Replacing Gloomy, Tropical Skies
It’s a new year and and a new opportunity to maybe stay more on top of making regular posts?? Hahah – we’ll see about that! Happy New Year!
My first post of 2019 is actually a group of photos that I took last May. I photographed a property in McDonough, GA on a day when the weather ended up being cloudy during the day and gloomy and drizzly at sunset. Although the client didn’t make the request, I decided to do sky replacements for all of the outdoor shots; it seemed like the only option! I had to cover my camera in a large plastic bag (with custom-cut holes) and stand out in the drizzle for almost 30 minutes to get the twilight shots (I know, poor little me). The ten photos below are some of the final photos that I submitted. The client was very happy (and therefore, so was I). Just click and drag the slider on each image to the before and after for each image…
I don’t have an extensive library of blue sky/puffy cloud photos, so I only used three or four different skies for the first seven photos. I’m surrounded by trees where I live and it’s not easy to get photos with lots of sky and minimal clutter. Some of these skies are from vacation photos and one was taken from a big-box store parking lot.
Not only did I have to replace the sky, I had to Photoshop three of the lamp posts back on and add reflections on the water. The lights and reflections were an important part of the ambiance had to be corrected.
The replacement sky that I used is from a photo that I took with my (now old) Samsung S6.
