Comments on: Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies

By: Dan Roeder

Dan Roeder — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:21:56 +0000

Keeper,
No, that doesn’t changed anything (based on what I’ve tried, anyway). I think LrC figures out what the sky is no matter how you orient an originally horizontal photo.

Dan

By: The Keeper of the Garden

The Keeper of the Garden — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:30:21 +0000

In reply to Dan Roeder. What happens if you turn a landscape-oriented "landscape" photo with both sky and reflected sky in it, 90 degrees? Is LrC then able to recognise both sky and reflected sky? ...

By: tarhibit

tarhibit — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:28:24 +0000

I have found this pretty helpful. Many thanks!

By: Dan Roeder

Dan Roeder — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:37:23 +0000

Hi Rob
Interesting article. It made me take a shot at coming up with a kludge too. My idea was unsuccessful; however, I did make an interesting discovery on a couple of my images that maybe you could try out too on some of yours.

What I found was if the images are vertical (portrait orientation), LrC has no problem selecting both the actual sky and the reflected sky. And actually it did a better job of selecting the reflection (it spilled over into some of the subject toward the top of the image, but not in the reflection of the subject). With a quick search of my catalog, I was able to find three vertical images that had a sky reflected in a body of water. Select Sky selected both sky and reflected sky for all three images.

I found similar horizontally-oriented images but Select Sky did not select both actual and reflected sky. I tried cropping those images into a portrait orientation but no luck with Select Sky. When I cropped the vertical-oriented images to a horizontal composition, Select Sky did select both actual and reflected sky portions of the image.

I thought this was interesting behavior, and thought you would like to know.

Regards,
Dan Roeder