Another "Fine Art" Experiment
I was waiting around downtown Durham waiting to be let into a different building for a photography job. While waiting I decided to walk around and see if I could get a few shots of some of the buildings. "The Novus" is the newest high rise in downtown Durham. I found a nice spot and took a few photos before heading over to my job.
I decided to try out a fine art type style edit on this. To make this I selected the building using the pen tool. I changed the entire background to black and added a long exposure sky that I took on the beach back in 2023. I then used a combo of selective masking in both photoshop and camera raw to edit the black and white.
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Nice work as always, Kyle. The long exposure sky really adds to the "story telling." I am really liking this art style for b&w photos. You did a nice job with it.
Thank you! I'm really liking doing this type of shot/editing. I just wish it wasn't so tedious! I have to really motivate my self to start but at the end it's usually worth it.
Nice photograph. It works great when you can isolate your subject. Were there other tall buildings in the original photo?
I like how your sky replacement matched the flow of the building lines...I am correct in guessing you needed to rotate the sky replacement to match?
Thanks Dean! There were some other buildings that would be to the right but they were far enough away that they weren't very tall in frame. I chose just get rid of them though. They were really bright and I couldn't bring down their exposure enough without it looking weird.
Funny enough, I didn't notice the sky matching the flow of the building. I guess it just "felt right" to me that it had to be going that way. Luckily for this one I did not have to rotate the sky. It was already going to right direction. I just had to transform it a bit to make sure the ocean wasn't in the frame, haha!
Lovely work Kyle.I find it interesting that you have LE sky shots on hand. Was this a conscious decision for future use in these kind of shots?
Like Dean, I am digging the angle of the clouds.
Thanks Alan! I only have a couple LE sky shots on hand, but they both seem to work well with this type of edit. I wish I would've thought that far ahead to think to take LE shots for future use but I never considered it. I just always enjoyed LE shots in my landscape photography.
Since getting in to this type of editing though, I'm definitely going to keep in mind taking some more LE shots for future use when I'm out in the field.