Tips on getting a streaky sky in fine art arch. images

Hi all,

I've been interested and taking architecture shots for a while and have have a full LEE set for long exposure.

I've watched a few free Joel Tjintjelaar videos but not quite taken on how he and other photographers manage to get those long streaky clouds at just the right angle. If I set my camera up for the right composition, the clouds are either going the wrong direction or too slow to get a streaky effect such as I desire for.

Is anyone aware of tutorials of how to obtain such an effect in post process? I have seen a couple of brief tuts on stretching the sky layer out etc.

Any tips/links would be appreciated.

Could always add a radial blur using Zoom mode on the sky (on a duplicate layer) and mask it in.

see the bottom of this thread.
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1468652

Joel Tjintjelaar and Julie Anna Gospodarou have written an e-book about their process:

http://blog.juliaannag​ospodarou.com/from-basics-to-fine-art/

which goes through their workflow in detail. Take a look.

Kirk

If I see a cool sky and I happen to have my camera along, I just grab a photo of it. By doing that, I have many different sky/cloud only photos ranging from stormy to crystal clear blue. If a sky in a photo is not what I want, I have plenty of options to replace it with something better. So, you may want to work on getting a photo of the sky from the angle you want and then get the main subject. Blend the two and you'll have the photo you want. Just be careful to make sure the direction of the lighting is consistent between the two photos you're blending (many times you can flip/rotate/manipulate a sky photo to put the light right where you need it)

jra wrote in post #18154229
If I see a cool sky and I happen to have my camera along, I just grab a photo of it. By doing that, I have many different sky/cloud only photos ranging from stormy to crystal clear blue. If a sky in a photo is not what I want, I have plenty of options to replace it with something better. So, you may want to work on getting a photo of the sky from the angle you want and then get the main subject. Blend the two and you'll have the photo you want. Just be careful to make sure the direction of the lighting is consistent between the two photos you're blending (many times you can flip/rotate/manipulate a sky photo to put the light right where you need it)

Thanks CotC. I do this too. The sky style in these images are not the same, maybe if I used the LEE Big Stopper for a 3-4min exposure I would get similar results to what I need.

Thanks for the tips above.

I have purchased the ebook and it's not bad.

I found I was able to do a lot of the work he does straight through Photoshop rather than using Nik Silver Effex.

Here's a link to my first attempt:


https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1468897

I'd say that's pretty nice for a first attempt!

kirk

Looks pretty damn good to me, well done.