What other edits do you see? (aside form removing bird poo) How to remove people from a photo. I could use help here. I don't have another exposure to blend them out of it since they stood there forever through all the good light. I was also thinking maybe a radial filter to darken left side more to draw the eye down the pier and to the sunrise. But it may already do that and I've just spent too much time looking at this one so my eye no longer does it.
Hi Thomas,
Im afraid that i cant offer much in the way of advice save to say that i agree that the left side needs work as everything is happening on the right. The omage seems to lopsided to me...
Sorry but thats all i can offer...
Regards,
Mike
Much appreciated all the same!
I think you are in an uncomfortably in-between position timing-wise here. It is too early for the lamps to provide much illumination and too late for the setting sun to create any shadows. I would expect the railing on the left, which is lit by the setting sun, to be brighter than the railing on the right, which is in shadow.
The other problem is that the railing all tilts toward the center rather than being vertical, which with digital images should be an easy fix. Of course, this is why view cameras have tilt/shift movements (and so did my Beseler 45M enlarger.).
Comment is appreciated, thanks! This was sunrise too btw. I do have an earlier exposure when lamps were brighter. Unfortunately there was no better light then this once the sun rose and disappeared behind the clouds.
Yes, I agree with Andrew, getting the verticals corrected is essential (and I think it might also help by expanding the sky relative to the foreground). Perhaps then a small crop on the left might give a little more balance to the image (by placing the focal point off centre). A little careful cloning could perhaps be used to remove the people from the image.
Hope this helps.
Paul
Much appreciated! The verticals completely slipped past me. Interesting take on shifting to the right, I'll look into it. Not what I intended with this since the pier is just as much my subject as sunrise with all those great tones and textures. So that's a different take I never considered.