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We're looking to the sky today as we try a different star trail technique. We're also collecting skies that can easily be placed into an image in Photoshop.
Once you've read our star trail technique or had a try at importing a new sky into an image if you're an e2 member you can upload your images here while our free members can upload into the gallery.
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We get amazing skies here, very rarely do we have a plain grey or white sky and the clouds are fabulous too, I often photograph the sky so I can add it to a photo that has a flat white one, I added a sky to a photo which had a flat over exposed sky and it looked really good, unfortunately it's on my PC so I can't upload it, grrrrrrr
Quote: We're looking to the sky today as we try a different star trail technique. We're also collecting skies that can easily be placed into an image in Photoshop.
Grrr, the sky is string enough to work on its own instead of ruining it by placing it into another image, or worse, making a dreadful silhouette 
Star trails though, thumbs up 
Not at all, just the assumption that a sky image has to be used in this way instead of letting the image stand alone, although a sky like the one above would be tricky to incorporate into an existing image purely on the basis that it would look false unless subtle hues were added to the foreground image too, unless its a silhouette.
Edit, not the image above but the image above that lol
I've got a collection of skies, all taken by myself and they do come in handy sometimes.
My recent giraffe pic. being a good example.
I agree that you need to use an appropriate one for your subject but with care and a little patience, replacing the sky can make all the difference.
There was recently a tutorial on here about it, one of Pete's, I think, which is worth looking for.
Jester.
Yes, the photo I recently added a sky to I had to make sure the sky matched the colours and brightness of the rest of the photo, the sky I was replacing was white and I had a hedgerow with lots of spindly branches sticking up which I couldn't cut around effectively so I made sure clouds went behind them so the white bits matched.
I had to do that with my giraffe. The neck is all spiky.
That's one of the reasons that it's been flipped over compared to the previous one.
It had to sit on the cloud so I had to flip one image or the other. I chose the giraffe.
Jester.
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