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[ebiggs1]

"Agree her feet might have made the shot better."

I think so too.  Remember framing is just as important as cropping later. Otherwise it is a very nice shot.

[Waddizzle]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"There was little chance of getting a shot of the sculpture without people."

Oh, but there is, its called Photoshop.  Actually pretty simple in that shot.

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I know.  I could either crop them out, or clone them out.  BTW, there are a couple of folks standing under it, too.

YouTube : Photoshop Training Channel : How to remove anything in Photoshop 

Like I said, I used the people to convey a sense scale.  For me, leaving people in an image is a rarity.  When I do, I strive to make them seem anonymous, and use them to only convey a sense of scale.

It seemed like no one wanted to get too close it.  Obviously, it is pretty huge.  I must have been a good 100 yards/meters away from it.  It is sitting at top of a small ridge, which added at least 10-15 feet to its' height from our observation point.  It was a minor climb in the sun to reach it.

I think the artist wanted you observe it from where we standing, anyway,  The location make it seem far taller than the Catskills in the background.

[kvbarkley]

Photoshop Elements will allow you to take several shots over a few minutes, so the people move around, and will remove them automagically.

This is another reason to use the "golden hour" in the morning. Fewer people at 6 AM!

Of course, this does not work at Albuquerque's Balloon Fiesta, since you have a few hundred thousand folks out there with you at dawn.

[RobertTheFat]

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@kvbarkley wrote:

Photoshop Elements will allow you to take several shots over a few minutes, so the people move around, and will remove them automagically. ...

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That works because the multiple images and moving figures allow the program to infer the background. Not so easy when you have a single image with an intrusive figure posed in front of anything but a blank background.

[ebiggs1]

"Not so easy when you have a single image with an intrusive figure posed in front of anything but a blank background."

Perhaps not as easy but certainly still possible, Robert.

[Waddizzle]

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@RobertTheFat wrote:

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@kvbarkley wrote:

Photoshop Elements will allow you to take several shots over a few minutes, so the people move around, and will remove them automagically. ...

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That works because the multiple images and moving figures allow the program to infer the background. Not so easy when you have a single image with an intrusive figure posed in front of anything but a blank background.

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It may be easier than you think.  Did you see the link that I posted that shows you how to remove people from a photo?  It would take less than a minute to remove the people in the foreground of my shot, if that long.  It goes on to demonstrate a much more complex object removal.

[ebiggs1]

"It may be easier than you think."

I know quite a bit about how to use PS. I can get around pretty well. But I am not even in the same stratosphere compared to the people I used to work with.. Those folks can do 'anything' and a lot of amazing stuff.