Tourists Be Gone
Disappearing People
The original photo was taken in the city of Mahón, Menorca. Because it was right opposite a major bus station, there was a lot of foot traffic. I must have waited for something like 15 minutes to get the scene this clear.
As someone that shoots a lot on film, I really don’t like to digitally process my photos much. I’ve had complaints from some of my model friends that I shot with recently because I didn’t remove any imperfections from their photos. I don’t like spending ages editing and to be honest, I don’t know how. My Photoshop skills suck, to put it mildly.
However there is a very nice tool in Lightroom (a subset of Photoshop), that makes this task and absolute breeze. I bet it was designed to help remove dust and other debris on the sensor, but it works so well for removing people. This is provided they are up against a relatively plain and uniform background. It wouldn’t work well for, say, removing someone from a crowd. It works wonders for removing spots on a face, or sensor dust from the sky.
Unless you’re trained to identify doctored photos, like a forensics expert for example, I don’t think anyone would notice that there were supposed to be people there. I even removed their shadows and it all only took 5 minutes or so.
Since I’m not a photo journalist or any such thing, I can do this sort of thing freely. Doctoring images is highly frowned upon in some photographic circles because that is seen as, amongst other things, telling lies.
Peace and Love ✌🏿
Adé
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A good tool to clean up pictures, isn't it? I didn't know it. Many times a spectacular photo is damaged by a shadow or any undesirable detail, the worst is when the moment is unrepeatable. I am happy that every day new applications or tools appear to improve the photorealistic work that is done. Your task was fast and it was perfect, congratulations, @adetorrent. Good night to you.
Yes I'm grateful for this particular tool :)
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As a photographer I find it annoying when I cant get shots without people. I simply wait like you did and wait from them to move. Interesting that you can forcibly remove them with software.
Yeah I used to wait for very long. I had a prime lens, and standing in front of another building, so I couldn't move back further to get the composition i wanted. Normally I'd point the camera slightly above the human height line to avoid people, but I really wanted to get the ground browns in. :)
I can see Lightroom is very powerful, but I only know about 5% of what it can do. I'm happy for this tool :)