I enjoy revisiting pictures from years ago and breathing new life into them. This is West Quoddy Head Lighthouse on the northern coast of Maine, and the original shot from the film days had a solid blue sky. I always liked it, but I experimented with trying out new sky backgrounds using the remarkable new Sky Replacement command in Photoshop and came up with a number of variations that embellished the scene. There were so many instances in the past, before Photoshop, when I wanted a particular image I saw in mind to be perfect, but due to circumstances beyond my control it just wasn’t possible. When I was shooting for stock agencies, for example, I wanted to photograph a beautiful church in Bavaria, Germany with a mountain landscape in the background. It was raining, though, and I had to wait three days for the rain to stop to get the shot. Today, I could simply shoot the church, photograph the landscape separately, and put the images together with a beautiful sky. Sure, it’s great to have serendipity in your favor, but most of the time it doesn’t work out that way. Now, serendipity can go take a hike. I’ve got Photoshop! I’m leading a photo tour to New England’s historic lighthouses in August.
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