Relight It in Post: How Luminar Neo's AI Is Changing the Way I Think About Exposure

There’s a specific kind of frustration that lives in the compositing world, and it has nothing to do with selections or blend modes. It’s the moment you realize the light in your base plate is fighting everything you’re trying to build on top of it. The foreground is muddy. The background is blowing out. You’ve got a subject that was shot in flat overcast light and you’re trying to marry it to a golden-hour sky, and no amount of Curves adjustment is going to make that feel honest.