OMg I totally suck Im sure

I have a shot from an air show, and Im not happy with the sky. So, I attempted to change it up alittle.

Does this look odd to you? What could I do to make save this one?

Btw laugh at will Im ok with it

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The exposure on your subjects is a couple stops under what the sky looks like.

Bad match = Obviously 'Shopped.

Yea...Sky doesn't match...At all.

It reminds me of those old 3D baseball cards you'd get with a box of Hostess snack cakes, real deep blues, white whites, and dark subject.

Who else remembers those cards? I think I still have some!

sky almost looks fake... can you post the orignal?

Original (or your latest post) looks good, just brighten up the planes a bit.

The sky doesn't look natural at all. The original can definitely look better.

Agree.. I choose the original

neither is the original ill post that. The 1 st I made the clouds, the 2nd I grabbed a sky image and shopped it. This is original

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It was just and ugly sky at the time
I have plenty from the air show like this and some where the planes ended up in a patch of blue

from the same show

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take the original. Add a curves layer to brighten the planes and then re-shop in the sky on the 2nd image

ok I did as you suggested, but I forgot what settings I had for the sky

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the smoke is buggin me too argh

torkk wrote in post #14903132
the smoke is buggin me too argh

Yeah, the smoke makes it look unnatural for some reason