Seems like no matter what I do...

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Last edited Sat Jan 30, 2016, 01:21 PM - Edit history (1)

...I always end up with the odd phone/power wires in the frame somewhere:

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[Solly Mack]

1. They're everywhere.

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[Solly Mack]

17. You know my weakness.

[mnhtnbb]

2. They really do wreck some great shots, don't they?

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7. I struggled mightily to find a workaround.

[liberal N proud]

3. Photo bombed by power lines

Better that someone with a yellow umbrella.

I took a business trip to China a few years ago. On the weekends they would take us to see the treasures, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and others. One of the people traveling with us managed to photo bomb nearly every picture I took. There he was with his yellow umbrella.

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8. China! What an opportunity for a photographer.

Did they have rules on where you could shoot?

i took this as a bit of a joke, at the end of a day where it actually did seem like wires were everywhere I looked.

[liberal N proud]

18. I only took pictures in the tourist type places

And was very careful and always asked my guide first.

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19. Question...

Curious as to whether they take any steps to actually review your photos.

[liberal N proud]

20. I didn't have any problems

I didn't try to put any on line while in China.

It was a business trip so I may have Ben off their radar. Our driver was a member of the communist party so who knows what his role was, as he was with us at all times. He might have done something if I had taken the wrong pictures. I even took pictures of soldiers in Tianamin Square with no issues.

[groundloop]

4. Hope you don't mind, I wanted to see what I could do with this.....

(Any excuse to avoid working on my taxes)



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[Adsos Letter]

9. Wow. You do that in Photoshop?

Reminds me of the old Soviet group photos, where individuals who fell out of favor would suddenly disappear rom the image.

That's good work. How long did it take you?

[groundloop]

11. About 30 minutes in Photoshop

It was a combination of spot healing tool and cloning. (like I mentioned, any diversion to keep from working on my tax return).

[Adsos Letter]

12. Well, you sure did a good job on it.

Now, no more dilly-dallying. The Government wants your money.

[NV Whino]

5. I think every photographer should take scenic photos with power lines

And bombard their local electric, telephone and cable company with them.

Also, we should have a power line contest.

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10. A power line contest could prove interesting.

Like Solly Mack said, "they're everywhere."

[Binkie The Clown]

13. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll bet this would work...

The power lines are a lot closer than the background rock face, so put the camera on a tripod and take two exposures, cranking the tripod up an inch or so between exposures. That will move the wires relative to the background, without moving the background very much at all. Layer them in Photoshop, Gimp, or Paintshop Pro. The two layers will have the same rock face in the background, but the wires will be located in slightly different places in the two layers. Erase the wires from the top layer letting the bottom layer background show through.

I used that to photograph a locomotive at a train museum once. There were a couple of people milling around so I could never get a clear shot of just the train, so I took several shots, with the camera on a tripod. Then I layered them in Paintshop Pro and erased people from each layer letting a different layer, with nobody standing in that exact spot, show through.

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14. That is a very creative solution.

NV Whino and I have tossed around the idea of a trip to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento for a photoshoot, a trip that is on hiatus until I can get some relief for this herniated disc in my neck. As populated as that place can be, your method would be a workable solution. First, I have to figure out how to do layers and flattening in Photoshop. I'm sure I could find a tutorial on the web somewhere.

In this situation I was able to just move closer and re-frame:

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Not quite the same shot, but it's ok.

[Binkie The Clown]

15. The Sacramento museum is where I did it.

As a general rule they don't allow tripods because they don't want people tripping over them, but they have (or used to have) certain times set aside for photographers when tripods are allowed.

(I was going to post the shot I made, but it's on a backup hard drive somewhere, and since I have photos going back to 2004 on that drive, it would take me forever to find it again. I really should organize my photo files better.)

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16. They do the same thing back at Eastern State Penitentiary.

In Philadelphia. Another very interesting place for photography.

I know a lot of places have these policies. Eastern State Penitentiary was just the one that popped into my mind.

[2naSalit]

21. They can be pretty tricky

a good part of the time.