I Paid Photoshop Masters To FIX My BEST Landscape Photo

so I wanted to change things up just a bit for this week's video and share with you a real quick story so about two years ago I was an attendee at at landscape photography conference in Moab Utah where it basically proceeded to rain for the entire duration of this event but on the very first evening we did receive some decent weather conditions it wasn't anything spectacular but it would be the best conditions that we would see the entire week so I remember getting in my sunset location on this particular evening not having a lot of time to to scout out a composition that would complement the colors that were already starting to appear in the sky so frantically rushing around the scene trying to whip together a composition it took me about maybe 20 or 30 minutes to come up with something and by this time I only had a few moments left to try and capture the the peak color that was already starting to to slowly fade in the sky so I'm rushing through my composition trying to set everything up as fast as I possibly can I'm rushing through my camera settings and I'm able to get off to exposures but both of these images have a a severe error associated with them that really left both of them completely unfixable and really completely destroyed and this really stung as I not only that I like this location a lot I thought that kind of weather conditions were good I thought that the composition worked well I thought it was on point but evidently in my haste of rushing around I was the factor that was completely not on point in this particular situation and I you know however I never deleted these photographs because I felt to myself you know this could have been my favorite image from this entire trip because these were probably the best conditions we'd see and I loved the location but I kept them because I thought maybe one day there was something I could do with these images and here they are right here this is the the raw file and I'm sorry this is the raw file here and this is the completely edited version and both of the images I captured were exactly the same but this is the the fully edited this is the best that I could possibly get it and I'm sure you can already tell what the issue is I completely overexposed or blew out my highlights in this entire area right through here around the arch which is arguably arguably the most important part of this scene and this is an error that you cannot fix almost any error that you create in photography I feel like you can usually fix somehow in post-processing but when overexposing you're my lights are completely blowing them out there's just nothing you can do with that so fast-forward to I guess last month I see this video two videos actually on YouTube about reaching out to Photoshop experts to edit your photos and I've always heard of these services but I never really paid much attention I figured they were super expensive but I was really intrigued by this cuz I thought to myself I wonder what a Photoshop expert if they could save one of my favorite photos from that trip I knew they couldn't fix it but could they replace the sky with another sky of mine that I thought would complement this scene I don't do a lot of I don't do any really a composite imagery I'm not against it or anything like that I just don't do it enough I'm not very good at it I'm not comfortable with my ability so I thought to myself you know that might be something you know interesting to look into I didn't have a whole lot of money to dedicate to this test this is not a sponsored video by anybody so I used my own money for this and I set myself up a budget of about $100 for this project and I started to go through the archives of my photos to try and find a sky that I thought would complement this scene well that really accurately resembled what it looked like in real life and this is the image I came up with right here this guy right here this is from Acadia National Park is very close to what this guy looked like on this particular evening so I wanted to see if I gave someone this sky could they put it here and do it cleanly enough to her there wasn't any kind of halos around the arch this isn't the easiest sky to blend because the arch is going right through the center of the sky wanted to see if they could blend it with no halos make it look very realistic match the colors in the sky to the rest of the landscape and really give them free rein to edit the rest of the image however they see fit so I hopped over to to fiverr.com I've never been there before but I heard that that was the service to a good service to do this type of a test with and I started to do a little bit of research and with the hundred dollar budget I wanted to get varying degrees from a pricing perspective just to see exactly what the end result would look like so I did a lot of research and basically just searching for anyone who does any kind of like landscape Photoshop work or Photoshop Wizards Photoshop gurus Photoshop experts all these different types of search queries and these are the six that I ended up going with and I wanted to come up with a couple five-dollar offers and I think well to whale to toe I don't think these are names I think these are handles but I thought you know I will edit your sunset seascape and landscape photos I looked through the photographs that's really exactly what I'm looking for they only had one five-star review but I said you know everybody had to start somewhere but it did have a quick delivery one-day delivery with three revisions so I went ahead and placed an order with them I wanted to get one more five-dollar revision is or one more $5 I guess project as well so I ended up going with where's star lion right here mainly because twelve thousand five hundred and fourteen five star reviews it looks like they do a lot of portrait work which isn't exactly what I'm looking for but with this many amazing reviews I just had to go with them to day delivery unlimited revisions which I thought was that was fantastic so I went ahead and placed an order with them as well so I wanted to kind of increase the price a little bit more just to see if the quality would increase as well so I ended up coming over here to dario koji which was I believe ten dollars yep and I went through these photos here and this is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for as well seven reviews 4.9 stars I will edit your landscape photos that's exactly what I was looking for so I went ahead and went with them as well now I wanted to kind of increase the ante a little bit to see if the the overall price really Inc determined the better quality so basically the more you pay is it going to be a little bit better so I increase the price to $20 and ended up going to go along where are you right here I will edit retouch Photoshop your landscape travel photo photos and pictures 36 reviews all five stars looked exactly like what I was looking for sky replacements so I figured you know that's because you know it's right in line with the type of projects that I'm looking for so I went ahead and placed an order with them as well I wanted to get another $20 one so I went with where are you harem teach ik I believe and ten reviews all five stars looks like they're doing sky replacements here and all kinds of different types of replacements just basic overall creative working it did say $5 but once I a said I needed a sky replacement and I needed a color matching and just general overall editing and increase the overall price to twenty dollars but I went ahead in and did it anyway and then the final order wanted to increase the price even warm was for thirty dollars and I was pretty certain that this would be the the the best one overall cuz you usually think that you know the more you pay or you pay what you you get what you pay for and that one was Aldo del Sol this one was you know once again it said five dollars but once I added everything that I needed in there it came to a total of thirty dollars and those were the the six jobs that I ended up going with and once I you know it took a few days some of the the Photoshop Wizards got their projects back the very next day others were you know two days later or three days later but here are the actual images right here so keep in mind this is the the raw file straight out of camera with zero editing applied to it whatsoever in the very first project that came back was actually the five dollar order from whale to toe and here is the image right here so this is the the raw file this is the final order for five dollars and it's a little aggressive of an edit in my opinion I think that then I think the sky replacement looked pretty well you can definitely see some halos quite prominently all around the arch beneath the arch and on top of the arch and it looks like in this area right through here whoops there's just uh not really sure what exactly just the blues and purples really coming through there I don't know if that's a part of actually blending the sky into the foreground you can actually see it I mean into the background you can see it right through here as well but once again here is the raw file and here is the final version for five dollars so was it uh it wasn't exactly the way I would have edited but nevertheless I think it looks okay now the the next one was another order for five dollars in here even though once again here is the raw file and this one is from star lion right here and I think this one is definitely a little bit more realistic it's a little bit in my opinion as far as the halos go i think there'd I think the actual blend is is pretty good you can see a little bit of haloing up here but overall I think the sky blending in through the arch and along the horizon line here is pretty good I believe the the overall edit I would go back and forth from the raw I think the color tawny you could tell they they definitely took a little bit of the blue from the sky and kind of added it into the overall landscape it looks pretty realistic so I mean I think for for five dollars I don't think you can really get much much better than this well I shouldn't say that but anyway this is a a little bit more than a little bit better than what I would expect for only spending five dollars on this one now the the next one I believe was ten dollars and once again raw file here and here's ten dollars that's pretty good too it looks like they did some editing on the the foreground as well maybe a little bit of dodging and burning as far as halos go yeah you can definitely see a little bit of haloing especially right through there it's not a a real clean match but overall I think it looks okay and I believe they yeah I think they sent in a couple of different versions here so here's the first one here is the second one the first one and the second one looks like they did some different coloring in the foreground here I think the coloring and this one right here probably matches the sky just a little bit better and here is the other raw file again now that the very next one was jumping up to $20.00 or literally doubling the the overall rate and this one from goli and i think that this is this looks good you know once again we're still seeing those those halos appearing which is always kind of the tell-tale sign of a sky replacement that doesn't quite look really really natural so that's kind of something that is the very first thing I'm looking at looks like there was some additional editing done to the sky and the foreground looks like a lot of shadow recovery was done and I think that that the color matching between the sky and the overall image looks looks pretty good so I don't think that one's too bad did they even send ya here's another version here as well so here's the first version and the second version this one looks looks like it just has less contrast it's a little flatter than this version right here but I think this one looks pretty good this one's not bad at all now the oh actually there's a third one right here so this is the first version second version in the third version here I think that first and a third are definitely the best the second one looks a little flat to me but the yeah you can still see a little bit of fringing a little bit of haloing and artifacts along the edge so it looks okay now the the next one was another $20 job and this was from a Harun - chick I think I got it right once again here is the raw file and here is the twenty dollar program from a Harun tin chick and it's it's definitely very very warm there is haloing all along the arch and you can definitely see it very prominent and it looks like they actually took the coloring from the landscape and applied it to the actual sky up here which is definitely is it's not what I would have done I would have used a coloring from the sky to color match the actual landscape so but nevertheless this is the the the twenty dollar one and then the final one was the most expensive this was the the thirty dollar project from Aldo del I was expecting a lot from this one as well and here is the raw file for comparison purposes and here is the thirty dollar job here so here's the raw file here is the thirty dollar job let's look for the Halos ya and this one the the actual blend is probably the best I mean you don't really see you don't see any kind of real artifacts there's not any kind of haloing at all I think the blending of this one is probably the best I don't necessarily love to edit they edited to the sky a little bit more this one is definitely cool so I'm not a hundred percent sure exactly which one I like I think that but this one is definitely the one that is blending in the best so I'll put all of the images on the screen I'll label like Amy's you can I'm just kind of curious which one of these is it do you think is the best kind of sky replacement for this particular image I thought a I'm kind of on the fence I'd have to kind of look at them a little bit more actually as to which one I think is the best I do know that the $30 job blended the best but I don't think that was the the best overall and it [Music] so I do hope you enjoyed this week's video something completely different I wanted to kind of just shake things up a little bit I don't want anything getting stale ever and I thought this was definitely an interesting test it helped me to kind of visually realize what this photo should have looked like if I didn't completely mess it up in the first place so if you have any questions if I definitely just leave those in the comment section below as well and I guarantee I will get back in touch with you and if you did enjoy this week's video if you could give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you're not subscribed already and as always I really do appreciate you watching and I will see you all next week bye

Channel: Mark Denney

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Length: 14min 32sec (872 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 29 2020