In my travels, from the window of the car.

[Kewish]

So back in March my wife, her sisters and I had to travel into the
country for their grandfathers funeral. I had borrowed my friends
1000D (which inspired me to get my 50D).



We passed through a lot of older townships along the way and
basically, I was just pressing the shutter every few seconds.



This is the first time I have had to remove an object within an
image that required so much attention. What are your thoughts?
Has the pole been removed realistically enough?

[B..]

Wow!

I'm not a professional photographer, and what I'm looking at in the forum is probably not the highest-resolution version, but I can't find any trace of the pole! And the 'after' image is darker around the edges, and I like that. It makes the photo look older.

I'll be interested to see whether someone else sees some give-away artifact that I haven't seen ...

[Kewish]

Ha ha. Thanks B..

[Quo Fan]

Nice work on the cloning.

[Kewish]

Thanks Quo Fan...

[MSidPhoto]

Wow !!!

A great photo I must say. Love it. The pole has been removed pretty nicely. If a person is not looking for it he won't feel that some object has been removed. Did you used Photoshop to remove the pole ???

I did a simpler removing in one of my photos. It was an overhead cable so it was quite easy to remove that.

Still interested what features you used to remove the pole.

KazeFox

[C_Noronha]

Great job! If you didn't have the original i would never had thought a pole was there.

[Kewish]

Originally Posted by KazeFox

Wow !!!

A great photo I must say. Love it. The pole has been removed pretty nicely. If a person is not looking for it he won't feel that some object has been removed. Did you used Photoshop to remove the pole ???

I did a simpler removing in one of my photos. It was an overhead cable so it was quite easy to remove that.

Still interested what features you used to remove the pole.

KazeFox

Thanks Kaze,

Yes, PS CS3. I like to use a couple of tools for the job, firstly I will lay the foundations for my missing information with the patch tool. This helps for harder clones as you can see a chunk of the image you are placing. (NOTE: this can blow out your colours) Do this with Smaller selections, not large areas. I probably used 15 - 20 selections on this image.

After that I will use a bit of the clone stamp to tidy up. Using a selection of the image on a separate layer. I then tone back to a desired opacity if req'd.

That's basically it.

Thanks for your comments.

Originally Posted by C_Noronha

Great job! If you didn't have the original i would never had thought a pole was there.

Thanks Heaps... This is the stuff I wanted to hear.









Happy to hear negatives too guys if you want.

[PowerPix]

Fantastic clone out!!!!!! My only negative is I don't much care for the strength of the "after" effect. Make sense? Other than that, excellent work.

[Kewish]

Originally Posted by PowerPix

Fantastic clone out!!!!!! My only negative is I don't much care for the strength of the "after" effect. Make sense? Other than that, excellent work.

Thanks. Sure, I know what you mean. I was just playing around with multiply blending and selective desaturation. No intentions of doing anything else with it other than posting it here for the cloning.

Going forward... I'll remember your comments and keep it subtle.