Comments on: Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies

By: Masking Hack: Part 2 - Lightroom Killer Tips

Masking Hack: Part 2 - Lightroom Killer Tips — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:15:25 +0000

[…] month I shared a way to trick the Select Sky function to select the reflection in water using either Camera Raw (ACR) or via sync to the desktop version of Lightroom (Lr) when starting in […]

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