A glimmering legacy of medieval Japan, Kinkaku ji or the Golden Pavilion as popularly known to foreign tourists was teeming with visitors - one had to get creative with the composition to avoid people in the frame.
What are your favourite techniques to get rid of tourists from your photos ?
It was mid September late in the afternoon, a group of sailboats were out on the water enjoying the weather, there was a soft breeze blowing, pushing on the sails.
The current AI contest made me revisit a photo I took in 2008 that I've been trying to save from a chain link fence.
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Great addition to the group.....to answer your question, yes, tourists and selfie shooters are always a kind of pain to have in the image. Since I usually shoot cityscapes, I often have to deal with tourists in my images....since I shoot at the same location for about 2 hours (usually from beginning sunset until ending of blue hour) I end up with a lot of photos of the same object and fortunately the tourists etc. are moving and are never at the same place.....so in photoshop I can overlay several images and get rid of the tourists with a layer mask. What I don't like is to stamp them out....I only use the stamp tool if really necessary......
My daughter was there a couple of weeks ago (she was in Japan when lockdowns came in) and had the place to herself. Kyoto was tourist free, so she went all around the city over a few days, sending back photos of empty sites.
Love it!