Puffin in flight Sky added

[the ghost]

picture I took many years ago.
With some of the new software that are now available. I have replaced the sky to hopefully give a flat image more drama.
1st image new sky 2nd image original

 

[Stegosaurus]

That's very effective!

 

[holty]

very nice

 

[LongLensPhotography]

That's certainly not a sky I would use. Too busy and too distracting from the bird. The lighting doesn't add up either.

 

[SFTPhotography]

I'd use a sky full of cirrus or grey heavy clouds taken at midday.

Nothing wrong with the original shot but it could do with a tighter take

 

[Damo1]

Like that

 

[the ghost]

thanks all it was just a trying out
so many skies i could have added even some real dark ones but they did not look correct for the image

 

[the black fox]

I did a few when they brought it out , got mixed reactions from the pundits ..but one of them was recently used by BBC springwatch so go figure

 

[Jeff15]

Nice one, it's great to be able to replace the sky

 

[sapstar]

It looks great with the added sky, but you probably need to find a different sky. The sun is currently placed on the shadow side of the bird which looks wrong...

 

[Bristolian]

My take on this is that whilst most people with an interest and knowledge of photography would see the lighting problem less than 1% of Joe Public would and even if they did they wouldn't care. So does it really matter about the light if the new sky improves the overall look of the image?

 

[Brentor]

The original looks far more realistic to me.

 

[Mag1cp2x]

Thanks for the tip, works great imo..