How to deal with BLUE SKIES in your Photographs

[@dean9585]

So… i just revisited a few of my old images and desaturated the blues in the sky… huge difference! Thanks for the advice. Keep it up buddy!

[@cheriechino]

LOVE THE WAY YOU HAVE CAPTURED THE LIGHT, THE FOREGROUND IS THE BEST I HAVE SEEN FOR A WHILE, CONGRATS ON THIS HENRY.

[@hjones451]

I actually thrive on a blue sky in my photography - I guess I'm watching your channel for its calming effects and enjoyment.

[@Hangiinjohnny]

Wooo st pats gear. New hat, new bag, new camera, new car. What a year

[@robertdavis1255]

Again thanks for sharing your experience with comments on dealing with blue skies in pics... location always challenging but you captured the mood... cheers 😀

[@briangilbert6241]

That last pano image is fantastic love it.

[@rollls63]

More great information. I have gained so much knowledge from your videos, thank you

[@ianhamer4294]

This is what i like about tour channel mate, the easy to listen to advice, hints and tips, as well as cracking photos. Always enjoy your banter, cheers.

[@AliasJimWirth]

Thanks for the tip, Henry. I will mess around with that and see what comes of it for me.

[@jamesss1953]

nice 1 - yep its what I do as well. Another great speal and banter - great stuff

[@timrosenburgh9485]

Hi Henry, I enjoyed the video as usual. Thanks for the tip on the blue sky, I will start to implement your tip. Great images as usual.

[@chrisandrews12345]

Another corker! Love the pano. Thank you for the tip re blue skies, right I’m off to see if I can implement this in some old photos. Cheers Henry

[@kenhenley7599]

Simple advice given in a simple, relaxed manner equals beautiful images. Loved the lone camper with a waterside camp fire. I noticed the gate and the sheep again.....if these didn't make an appearance in your videos I would be disappointed! Cheers.

[@Snickers_GLNY]

Definitely going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip. Wonderful video as usual.

[@steveboys5369]

Hi Henry, another grand day out, super images, and thanks for sharing.

[@TudorSmithPhotography]

I absolutely love the 5 shot pano. Great video as per..

[@timschaeffer8874]

Thanks for the blue sky tip. I too often find myself trying to "over-cook" my skies, when I should be "under-cooking" them back to reality. Another lesson learned from my photo mentor, and I humbly submit. Thanks, Henry.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Thank you Tim :)

[@christophergrove4876]

🇨🇦/🇺🇸... Tim... I'm sure you've visited street art fair and seen that the sheeple tend to congregate around the booths with bright and over-saturated images. The booths with "realistic" images or those of FILM photographers, don't seem to get the traffic. I'm THINKIN' that maybe a solution is to do BOTH and have a website that funnels prospective customers into either stream based on their artistic preferences... Because artistic preference is exactly what it is. ;-)

[@astralbody]

Blue skies...I always run to the forest to control the postcard sky. Nice to see how your take in these beautiful vista you share with us! Sometimes I find the white flat clouds a bit more pesky than blue skies. Beautiful shots! Your example in the video is great though and a practice I'll try too! Add drama to blue and you've got a kicker! Love the different opinion on the blue above! Lovely scenes!! Another good video as always! Cheers, Henry!! Love the sheep!!! They are the best buddies! 😁

[@juliacruttenden5907]

Another great video and stunning pics. Many thanks for the post processing tips

[@jonstout7635]

I can see your point about the sky’s color dominating the photo. I’ll experiment some and give you credit when the compliments roll in.

[@radcoimbatore]

Great video one more time , awesome shots , I love it both , thank you bro 🎉

[@derrickm9808]

not sure if you are aware because you have not owned the z7 very long but with the ibis you can hand hold at much lower shutter speeds than125th,....that is a great pointer on how blue skies can over power the shot and very much enjoy your videos with your enthusiasm Henry!

[@nigelford7860]

Love the resultant pano! Thanks for the interesting and useful advice on bluer skies. I will certainly try this. I need more subtlety in my shots and this will help as a great start...

[@carlyoung412]

Thank you, Henry. I've yet to try a panorama, but you have inspired me to give it a go sometime soon.

[@2DogAle]

I am always trying to look at the skies and make sure I “don’t include” blue sky but now, I can let that go and concentrate on all of what I feel when composing the scene. Thanks Henry. Another thing, that I have always loved about your process… the fact that you have such little equipment and still my wonderful, wall hanging quality images. There is a lesson there… Cheer, Rob.

[@Colony_Complete_Soundtrack]

bravo Henry! Hello from Greece!

[@sherrydavis3110]

Lovely image, well worth the wait.

[@ChrisArnold1975]

Your view on saturated blue skies is akin to my view on greenery. I abhor glowing greens in photos. I switched my camera to a different film sim, and now my greenery is no longer fluorescent.

[@lyndapassey2752]

Another cracking video and the images were amazing! Thanks for your constant enthusiasm which is always an inspiration.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Many thanks!

[@lisasimpson9343]

Wonderful again Henry. Where I live we have a lot of blue sky, we have just come out of a long drought, so for me its a natural occurrence. But when I fire up Lightroom later, after my chores, I shall experiment. I won't have any trouble finding a photo to play with. I have one I sell as a postcard here of our steam train, there is a very blue sky, I'll bring up that one out of curiosity. Its all good fun.

[@juleshorse9056]

Hi, another great tip. We have just returned from the Lake District (there Aug 21) and so I did re-edit one of my images (in C1/21) to adjust the blue sky as you suggested. Worked a treat - many hanks.

[@philipsmith1465]

Super as always !

[@mightyenid]

lolz at the chopper 2:06 with static rotors. nice one

[@minus1db]

Thanks Henry another great one (as always) lived that last pano

[@JohnPaul-ii]

No epic sky’s for number 27, no matter. Thankfully, No grass fires either. Stay safe Henry 🇦🇺 27/214

[@JoeHTX]

Awesome stuff Henry!

[@kqschwarz]

I often boost the blue sky, but that can look cartoonish. I see you point about desaturating the sky and I am going to try it. Thank you for the inspiration!

[@arcanics1971]

I have a similar trick, but I start with the calibration blue slider and then finetune with HSL saturation and luminance. 🐑

[@petermcguire3070]

Cracking as usual Henry. :-)

[@RahulKumar-nh3wc]

make a new video about what's in your new camera bag...??

[@kelsangjorlam5770]

Hello Henry, it's more than a decent one to start the day.. Blue skies: this is how i deal with them too.. Sometimes i reduce saturation of grass.. It's all about balance.. i was never one for panos but your images have, over the months, converted me.. This one is brilliant, blooming awesome Henry.. Many thanks, once again, for an informative and enjoyable experience..

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Thanks so much Jorlam and I really appreciate your Ko=Fi donation also!

[@weedeeohguy]

Stumbled on you today. Great stuff. Engaging. Unpretentious. Subbed.

[@RM831BC4E4]

Stunning images Henry, and a good technique to reduce the “Blue Skies “ we face when out taking photos. I will be sure to give it a go next time.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Many thanks Richie

[@CourtneyVictoria]

Fantastic tip with the blue skies, I actually do this myself and adjust the hue of any heavy aqua tones, that for some reason just don't do it for me. Beautiful location, panorama at the end is smashing.

[@ijclarkphoto]

I go for a bit of desaturation and push the blue hue more towards aqua which seems to give a nice pleasing soft blue. Works for me anyway :)

[@scothowe539]

Enjoyed the video as always. I have to say though when I hear the term blue sky I’m thinking a total lack of clouds. I found your example photo quite pleasing.

[@andrewreardon9400]

Hi Henry love the photos, But I need a blue sky for our next adventure mate so I can do the editing..

[@thesharpercoder]

I love capturing panoramas with my 70-200. But, I like to use the tripod foot on the lens to mount it to the tripod. I love the 70-200 because I can easily rotate the camera to portrait mode.

[@scotty4418]

stunning pano to finish off with Henry. Have 8 days of photography coming up and blue skies seem to be featuring in the forecast but planning a lot of mono work so might not be as big an issue this time but like yourself I dial the blue back in post, normally when in photoshop. Good to see another Wainright chalked off Henry, making good progress so far 👍

[@michellefisher724]

Great Pano👍

[@rayjennings3637]

I've not got Lightroom or the full Photoshop. Most of the shots I take are of aviation subjects, so blue sky features pretty frequently for me but I use Photoshop Elements and I've found that using the 'Quick Selection' or the 'Magic Lasso' tool, I can select the area I need to adjust, go into 'Adjust Colour / Adjust Hue/Saturation' and just reduce the Cyan level to give me the type of blue I want for the shot.

[@stephenthompson1998]

Thanks for the tip

[@rayjennings3637]

@@stephenthompson1998 You're welcome, Stephen.

[@ggreaves2448]

I find that going into the Soft Proofing (click S on the keyboard) and then spend time on the global vibrancy, saturation (often I increase the vibrancy quiet a lot and reduce saturation) and then use the individual saturation, luminosity sliders to add a little bit or remove a little bit from individual colours as needed is a very good way of getting a good balance of vibrancy and saturation of all the colours while having a visual aid for when a colour is being over saturated.

[@6bProductions]

love your posts and information My problem here on the East coast of the USA we have deep blue skies when the sunshines

[@keithnisbet]

«Conker Tree » only those of us growing up in UK would know what Conkers are. I haven’t heard that since I was a young child in England. I’ll leave you to explain the term to everyone Henry. 👍🙏

[@rudyrodriguezjr.]

Fantastic tip!

[@kevinroberts1888]

Enjoyed the video. It's been a long hot summer, hasn't it? Myself, I'm really looking forward to doing some fall photography. I like to use a polarizer when the sky is blue behind the clouds. It gives me a little bit of control of how the blue looks from the camera. Though it's not everyone's cup of tea, I tend to like a rich blue in my photos. But I do agree that there are circumstances where it will completely ruin the photo as well.

[@engjds]

First control i use is dehaze then bring the shadows up, followed by clarity and texture, then colour controls to bring green and blues down since dehaze over saturates colours, dont know if this is technically the right way, but its took lots of trial and error to get here.

[@shaunkelly3562]

You must have been to Toronto, CANADA to get that St. Pat's NHL cap!

[@jerrykita8767]

A St Pat's hat. That's cool. Do you have a Toronto Maple Leafs hat?

[@christophergrove4876]

🇨🇦/🇺🇸... HEY THERE, HENRY! Ya know, bro... I'm ALWAYS finding myself editing to bring out the bits of blue in between clouds... or through that even veil of grey during "The Season of Grey and Brown" and YOU'RE RIGHT! Although it's nice to increase the contrast in the sky to see the clouds, sometimes it's better to lessen the blue at the same time because it CAN be distracting. And it's pretty ease to do in Lightroom. Cheers, Henry! (still waiting on the shipping/postal for the calendar)

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Thanks a lot mate! Yes, you're calendar is en route :)

[@christophergrove4876]

@@HenryTurnerphoto Yep... I understand. Just commenting about that "Christmas feeling" when waiting on the postal service. 😉

[@christophergrove4876]

@@HenryTurnerphoto 🇨🇦/🇺🇸... HA! It arrived today, bro! My gal, Kathleen, is hinting as to where to hang it! ;-) Cheers!

[@TheWescombe]

Great photos and stream.. How do you deal with sweaty back from for backpack..?

[@TheJoshuaborden]

Just received my 2022 calendar! Brilliant. Your bio says you lived in Canada for a while. Where? Thanks very much from Newfoundland, Canada.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

That's great!! Thanks for the support :). I lived in Toronto and Vancouver but travelled from East to West coasts

[@hjones451]

Would love to buy a lightweight travel tripod, pistol head and spiked feet - Any recommendations? I'm thinking Kingjoy possibly, but websites aren't particularly helpful.

[@RudixSA]

No! I love a blue sky! Add some moody clouds and I am happy. But then again I do not live in the UK where grey skies are "normal", I find grey or grey/blue" skies quite depressing. What I do not like is a blue sky without any clouds, when it is like that I won't take a photo that includes the sky. But tastes differ and your "grey" sky photos are still beautiful.

[@bezedoinga]

I was hopping for some advise on photos on raw blue skis like the ones we have in portuguese summer

[@mace79]

Hi, not sure if you already know the trick in lightroom where you drag a gradient filter off the side of the photo, then use the range slider on luminance setting?.. You can the isolate the highlights/shadows etc… sorry if I’m teaching you to suck eggs but just wanna help if u don’t know this trick. It’s a game changer. Keep the vids coming Henry. Love them. Let me know if you’d like me to point you to a tutorial vid 👍🏼

[@VangelisMatosMedina]

Bring up the illumination of the blue, do not bring down saturation. So you avoid the greyish colors.

[@brucedelorme5026]

I do like a little blue skies, especially if there is light puffy clouds. But not a fan of flat blue skies

[@rickarmstrong9793]

Its interesting that you often want to suppress the blue skies in your photos. I live in Florida, known as The Sunshine State. People expect blue skies. When I've travelled to the western US, those sharp cut mountains look great with a blue sky. Now that's not to say I don't like the wonderfully flat lighting of an overcast day. Before a trip to Virginia while making plans to shoot Mabry Mill, I read so many photographers saying you had to get there before dawn and wait for the perfect lighting. It just so happened, the day we visited, it was overcast. I wasn't getting any sky in my shots anyway. I was going for the mill surrounded by fall foliage.

[@hukumongdu]

This is subjective like you said, but I do have few photos where I want to try this. thanks for the tip sir!

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

No problem!

[@thesharpercoder]

Henry’s signature “Gate Shot” begins at the 2:05 mark, folks.

[@jefnatuurfilmer]

beautiful pictures

[@janetturner7489]

Hi Henry - the way I deal with blue sky or with a white overcast sky with no relief in the latter is to get as little as possible in the frame. I understand that you edit the image but I don't have the means to do that. The first image with the stream and tree I love it, it's so relaxing, I would mount, frame and and have it on my wall in the living room. The one of Hayes water - nah, not my taste, looks too mechanical(?) whatever that means, but photography is subjective, isn't it? The herd of deer looked quite stunning in the evening sun. Hope you got back down the mountain alright and that you found your car! Take care.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Thanks Janet :D

[@PMCN53]

An interesting perspective of BLUE sky Henry. I don’t think making a rule to desaturate the BLUE in the sky is a valid argument. I think that each image should be edited to achieve the overall best look. I do follow your argument…..BUT? Most landscape photography is primarily done at the 2 ends of the day ( not all ways though). Again, hard & fast rules just turn it into an exercise. Just a thought from an old 67yo photographer 👍🏻🇦🇺👍🏻

[@kingstonanderson9861]

Blue skies are a given as I am in Australia. Nothing but blue skies some times. The last shot seemed to curve at the bottom. Is that because it is a pano?

[@laurelb8372]

So true Kingston. Clouds get us a bit excited for sunrise & sunset. Blue skies can be great in b&w.

[@ellyelzinga01]

Blue skies.. Yes, I do like to desaturate them a bit, but not too much. I don't hate blue skies in pictures, it can look quite nice but it does depend on the scene I think. I took a picture of Lac de la Haute-Sûre in Luxembourg and the blue sky (with clouds) just fitted perfectly there. But I also took a picture elsewhere (Nonnweiler Talsperre in Germany) and I had such moody conditions, that really added to the picture as well (and yes, I got rained on 🤣). I love both pictures, even though they're both so different.. But I think if the situations would have been reversed, Lac de la Haute-Sûre would have looked like a sad, grey lake and the picture wouldn't have been half of what it is now, and the Nonnweiser Talsperre I think looks so much better in the moody conditions than it would with a blue sky.. So I appreciate all conditions, but it depends on the location. And sometimes you just have to make the best of what you get 😊

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Thanks Elly and great point re dependent on location!

[@ashstubbings2603]

Hi Henry how's it going? I tried re-editing some of my photos but I haven't got Lightroom, only the basic photo editing software that came with the computer. To be honest I didn't like the results. With the software I've got you can only alter the whole image, not just one part of it, such as the sky. I s'pose I need to invest in some better editing software! LOL

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Good thanks Ash and yes, I hope you can find a way to give it a try!

[@kwchalky02]

Another good 'un Henry! 🙂 Liked the last shot particularly. 👍 I quite like blue sky. I try to achieve as close to what I see with my eye anyway, irrespective of the colours, rather than trying to make it look "better". More an accurate record of my day out than producing art, but that's just personal preference. 🙂

[@ashstubbings2603]

That's what I try to do as well Kenny. I like my photos to look like what I actually saw, rather than some 'made up' arty farty thing!

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Very fair point mate - love the subjectivity :) 🙏🏼

[@bobcoggin4618]

Brill 👍🏻

[@domhaughton6809]

I'm always getting told off for not doing much with blue skies at home 😂

[@markstevens6682]

I see more and more folks posting awesome photos that are basically ruined because of over the top editing. Over sharpening, over saturated, over everything! Many ask for CC, then get mad when you tell them…?

[@christopherhume8896]

I have the opposite problem, I can never seem to get any blue in my sky, just continuous grey cloud. The joys of Northern Ireland I suppose. 😂

[@Sold_a_dummy]

_"You just take, take, take, you lot"_ 😁 I'm assuming you've had the surgery and are fully recovered. I saw you were wearing sun glasses for a little. Anyway, you have not lost your *eye* for photography.

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Not had it yet mate :)

[@Sold_a_dummy]

@@HenryTurnerphoto oh ok. This the one per week still. Well I wish you all the best

[@FarawayPictures]

What do you think of the current trend of software just replacing skies?

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Nothing against it but not for me mate!

[@grahamtowers5513]

I don't mind blue skies, I have more trouble with flat crappy white clouds with no form and no blue sky visible at all

[@srinivaasansundar7406]

what happen to your D7200? thats where i connected you and your videos

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Fell in a lake :(

[@emmarita487]

How to deal with plain blue skies - Me: don't take the photo. go home. be in a bad mood. buy shoes online.

[@envyrish]

Is that a Toronto Maple Leafs vintage St. pats hat? Are you sure you’re not Canadian ? 😂lol.

[@bruceatkinson932]

It is indeed!

[@HenryTurnerphoto]

Haha! Had to search far and wide for that one :)

[@keithtimmis]

I don't have a problem with blue skies if that is how they look. As others have commented, I just try to capture how it really looks.

[@SkuStyle]

Now how to deal with those nasty chem-trails ? @0:57