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Photo of the Day - October 2020

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Hughmac said:
Welcome to the RX100 club :)

Cheers :)

Hugh
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Thanks ... I've always maintained that , like Groucho , any club that would have me as a member I don't want to belong to ... but I'll make an exception this time. I've had the mk3 a couple of years now . Mostly it sits in my camera bag as a 'backup' despite taking alarmingly good pictures for a camera its' size. I think this is the first time I've posted anything taken with it . The picture is of the Tremont , Maine harbor, and was just a grab shot while I was trying to figure how I got there and where I wanted to end up .Not as crisp as I care for , but it's been down rezzed to 1024x768 so I don't constipate friend's internet with my travel pix.
 
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mollyc said:
Well I don't personally do sky replacements, although I have experimented with them. But sometimes the creative challenge is in the editing to make the final image look like what you saw in your head. I don't really see sky replacement any different than cloning or flipping and pasting half an image to make it symmetrical, or any number of other things that photoshop can do.

Some people are purists and think everything should be done in camera, and some people enjoy the editing. Others are somewhere in the middle, and I think there is room for everyone in this thread.

(Also, I think Stephen actually agreed with your sentiment based on his comment, but was just seeing how the whole thing worked.)
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Of course there's room for everyone, just voicing a personal opinion. I wouldn't want to dissuade people from doing exactly the type of photos they want, even down to the eye-bleeding HDR we saw a few years ago!
Yes, I was just agreeing with Stephen :)

tizeye said:
Actually, that photo was taken earlier this month which I guess could be considered summer by many.

While I try not to, I do sky replacement quite often...but have to be careful how impacts rest of photo and shadows (or lack of). Today, deleted before posting in PTOD an autumn leaf photo along a trail. (no sky replacement on one posted today) The sky was gray from the dreary day, and just wasn't happy with it where a tinge of blue would add so much. Where I typically do it is in real estate photography where the front/first photo is considered the money photo to get people to stop and look in detail at other photos of the house for sale. With Florida being the "Sunshine State", a dreary overcast front photo is hardly a Chamber of Commerce moment. Luminar 4 has made it effortless - but it is not perfect. Sometimes it can't find the sky - and mmay happen with the autumn leaf noted earlier as it was a small patch of sky. The other, I've notice is a very light opacity blue mask that gives known white trim a bluish look. I have used layers duplicating the original to bring the white back.
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I can imagine using the sky replacement for real estate photography. It's important to create a good impression on first glance!
 
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someoldguy

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Namara said:
OK, I'll bite. It looks like my neck of the woods. Where was this taken?
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Tremont , Maine ; on the other side of Mt. Desert Island from Bar Harbor . Ran up from NJ a couple of weeks back for a quick couple of days in Acadia . Great place.
 
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someoldguy said:
Tremont , Maine ; on the other side of Mt. Desert Island from Bar Harbor . Ran up from NJ a couple of weeks back for a quick couple of days in Acadia . Great place.
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I know it well but couldn't place that harbor. Acadia is such a treasure. Glad you got even a little time there and hope it was a lot more deserted than it is in mid-summer.
 
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Namara said:
I know it well but couldn't place that harbor. Acadia is such a treasure. Glad you got even a little time there and hope it was a lot more deserted than it is in mid-summer.
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Crowds weren't bad , some of the parking pull-outs were full , and the shuttle bus system was down due to the virus business but there were easy work-arounds . I went Tuesday and came back on Saturday , so beat the weekend 'leaf peepers' . I'd been warned by friends about summer crowds being somewhat zoo-like so put things back until the end of September . Maybe I'll get back there next fall for a longer stay . Great place , and it's drivable from where I am . (NJ)
 
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