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@spd23racer7 ай бұрын
I love how you leave the sky on all your pictures, very moody and bold contrast💯
@Dolbz10217 күн бұрын
Amazing Christian
@scandinavianthinking12517 ай бұрын
Christian, Thank you so much for your wonderful presentation of masking hack! The sky is getting beautifully glowing in the horizon area. This is definitely mind blowing! Your brilliant explanation inspire me.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@i.m.56217 ай бұрын
Thanks for another great video. The masking trick is great as well as the subtle brightening of the horizon. It's almost unbelievable how interesting and sensitive and can modify a rather boring image and achieve a natural result.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Very happy you like it, thanks a lot!
@jimmywest17 ай бұрын
This was really awesome, Christian! Well done mate.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@EricGross7 ай бұрын
Brilliant teaching video and masterful editing.
@gizmophoto35777 ай бұрын
I’m looking forward to applying this mask technique. I’ve had success in some images by careful use of luminosity masking, and I think the combination will be quite helpful.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment! Applying a lot of masks can get confusing at some point. It gets better with more expereience
@toddwynia74917 ай бұрын
Great technique and great results! Thanks!
@bosiefoobar6 ай бұрын
that was really smooth, thank you very much
@Daniel_Ilyich7 ай бұрын
Surprising that the a7III has that much noise in the sky at ISO 800. Also, something that worked for me with this image was adding the two prominent color ranges of the sky in addition to the initial sky selection and playing with the refine color to get it more precise.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
I dont think the noise is too bad, but its visible when looking for it :-)
@The_CGA6 ай бұрын
It’s about a stop to a stop and a half under for minimum noise, but my experience with Sony RAW files is there’s more color depth to work with when something is in the mid tones or shadows. (Necessary for using the clarity, vibrance, dehaze activity in this edit) DX0 scrubs out noise if it’s super important…for a dark landscape like this there’s plenty of grain and noise from mk 1 eyeball so 🤷♂️
@Daniel_Ilyich6 ай бұрын
@@The_CGAI mean for printing purposes, it won't be very noticeable. I was just talking from a pixel-peeping perspective. I thought that modern BSI-CMOS Full Frame sensors would be almost noiseless till the 800-1200 level at the pixel level (with noise reduction at default levels in LR). Yeah, I agree about SONY files. They're very flexible (for lack of a better term). #nerd #firstworldproblems
@DynastyUK7 ай бұрын
Guess what, you can subtract the same mask multiple times and make it even more precise. :)
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Just saw another comment mentioning this, didnt know that until now. Cant wait to test it out later on! :-)
@DynastyUK7 ай бұрын
@@ThePhlogPhotography just be careful, sometimes it subtracts a little too much.
@Artoffrozentime7 ай бұрын
You are so helpful! Thanks!
@bn50557 ай бұрын
The new masking tools in LR are great. Now I just want to be able to blend 2 exposures with them so I don't need to do luminosity masking in Ps at all.
@rgarlinyc7 ай бұрын
Very clever, thanks a lot!
@stevenanthony5787 ай бұрын
Tried this on my tablet with Lr (not Lr-C) and subtracting the sky mask from the sky mast didn't work. So, what I did, just before making a sky mask, was to decrease Blacks and Shadows all the way and increased contrast all the way. Then I made the sky mask. Then went back to the whole image and put contrast, blacks and shadows back to 0. Seemed to work well.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I actually dont know if chaning the tonal values like increasing contrast affects the ai masks in such a way that they have an easier time targeting the sky. I think I'm going to give it a try right now
@massimobianchetti82727 ай бұрын
Hi, I came to your channel by chance, and then intrigued by the themes and clarity of presentation of your tutorials: I plan to follow you on the channel with interest and pleasure, in the common passion for landscape photography... greetings. Massimo (Italy)
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Hope you will find a few interessting videos here, thank you very much!
@liorcaspi97 ай бұрын
Hi Christian. I love your channel. Just wanted to comment that you can have the same result with less clicks by intersecting the sky with sky instead of subtract -> invert.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks for pointing this out, this will make things faster for sure!
@ugurongel30667 ай бұрын
thank you great job
@garyaweiner7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ThePhlogPhotography6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for the support, that means a lot to me!
@bab0086 ай бұрын
The sky mask trick works with birds feathers for birds in flight. Great tip!
@johnclarke13196 ай бұрын
I got confused from the get go when you mentioned classic ( ergo original?) and then talked about AI). Is there any way to use this without an interfering AI presence on line? I use Lightroom 6, and can't find these masks. I don't want a nosey on line AI anywhere near my life.
@ThePhlogPhotography6 ай бұрын
No, you do need the sky selection (AI) mask to do this. You could do it in Lightroom with luminositiy masks (or sky selection) but its mroe time consuming and a little more complex
@timpaynephotography59146 ай бұрын
i really like the final but this is too many steps when your in a hurry
@perpardorf10406 ай бұрын
Backflash
@thomasjohansson84947 ай бұрын
Hi! Do anyone know a way to set the profile "Adobe standard" to default instead of "Adobe colour" in lightroom?
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thats a good question, never thought about changing the default profile
@ericpecquerie48687 ай бұрын
Great processing. Vérifie inspiring. And I will remember the sky selection trick I hope. What do you think of cropping your image square to focus more on the group of trees?
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I think square would work too, but its just a personal thing, I'm not a fan of those square images :-)
@thanosbistolas69037 ай бұрын
This is interesting Christian, thanks. I find though that intersecting the sky mask with the sky gives a very good result and in fact you could intetsect the mask once more with the sky for even more precision.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
NO WAY! I didn't know that, thanks for pointing this out!
@UbzUnclemax7 ай бұрын
Haven't tried on this image yet, but I think subtracting an "Objects mask" would work best here.
@MichaelWDietrich7 ай бұрын
Probably given credits to Brian who discovered this trick first (or at least publisghed it frist on yt) should be a routine and good habit.
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Who is Brian? I saw this trick in one of Signature.Edits videos and I gave credit in the video and in the description.
@MichaelWDietrich7 ай бұрын
@@ThePhlogPhotographyYeti, I told SE before that is not worth going taking the credit, when he did not find it himself, but Brian did.
@brianmatiashАй бұрын
Thank you for looking out for me, Michael! Christian, that SE video linked in your description does show my channel in the beginning and sort of gives credit, but it’s kind of messed up that he didn’t link to my channel directly in his description. 🧐 Oh well. Your channel is fantastic, regardless!
@colinjones86567 ай бұрын
Really enjoying your content regarding the use of masks, what a transformation. I'm still trying to my head around the use of intersects and where/how to apply them and somehow lose it halfway through the edit. Thank you.
@alanrenton60596 ай бұрын
Great timing, just trying to edit a similar picture and these techniques will really overcome the masking problems I was experiencing.
@nancyforehand82817 ай бұрын
Great tutorial. Looking forward to trying this technique on my own images. Thanks so much, Christian.
@bab0086 ай бұрын
Great tips!
@frankaldous40537 ай бұрын
Brilliant, I had this issue with a tower being included with the sky… now I can isolate it perfectly… THANK YOU 👌👌👌
@ThePhlogPhotography7 ай бұрын
Thats great to hras, thanks for commenting! This method works great with architecture stuff in the image!
@maxbiho6 ай бұрын
great!!
@MarkMetternichPhotographyLLC6 ай бұрын
This technique works great for images that are small, for social media or inly printed small. But it can create a ton of problems for big enlargements! Nothing can give us the finesse and precision like the superior, masks and Photoshop. The best way to approach it is to bring in a raw layer into Photoshop. Duplicated by choosing “new smart object via a copy”. And then using the extremely superior Photoshop masking.
@ThePhlogPhotography6 ай бұрын
I agree, Photoshop masking is way, way, way more precise, especially when working with luminosity masks to target very specific things. However, those are also way more complex and for quick adjustments like in this case I think its fine to just the quicker and simpler lightroom masks. So far, I didnt have much problems even with bigger images, BUT it also depends on the kind of area you're masking here
@carlosandreviana94487 ай бұрын
It's a mistake to do that "trick" because some blending is necessary between the sky and the trees