One of my favorite shots from Europe is this image of Cobh, Ireland. To get this view, I had to climb a wall to get above houses and walls that blocked this beautiful view. Typical of so many places in the world, ugly power lines ran down this street in front of all those colorful houses. To me, beauty is uplifting and ugliness is depressing, but apparently not a lot of people agree with me because 'ugly' seems to be winning. Fortunately, I was able to eliminate all the power lines and poles through painstaking work in Photoshop to make this scene what is should be. It was worth it, of course, because I love the picture. I used a combination of the clone tool, the healing brush, and the patch tool to manipulate the image. My settings for this shot were 1/160, f/9, 200 ISO, and I used a 24-105mm lens.
9 Comments
Jul 2, 2022, 9:18:43 AM
Jim Zuckerman - What size are you thinking about?
Jun 30, 2022, 1:23:14 AM
Kathleen Vandenbout - I would like a print if this
Aug 18, 2017, 9:46:02 AM
Jim - Thank you, Rohinton.
Aug 18, 2017, 9:44:36 AM
Rohinton Mehta - Wow! Love it.
Aug 16, 2017, 11:14:22 AM
Jim - Thank you, Richard. I hope I live to see the day when we don't need telephone and power lines any more, and the market in surplus copper will drop through the floor because we'll be inundated with it!
And thanks to you, too, Janie.
Aug 16, 2017, 10:57:24 AM
Richard - Wonderful shot Jim & I cannot stand telephone poles. Great job removing them.R
Aug 16, 2017, 10:31:13 AM
Janie Greene - Thanks Jim...What an unusual photograph...and it really is pretty too. Thanks for sharing and what a creative eye and mind you must have.....Janie Greene
Aug 16, 2017, 3:16:18 AM
Jim - Hi Bob, This is a great question. In dealing with the elimination of power lines, it all depends on what's behind them. I can't answer you specifically because what's in the background determines the tool and the technique. If you have a particular picture in mind, then we can discuss specifics.
Aug 15, 2017, 10:08:13 PM
Bob Vestal - Love the vivid colors! Suspect that you use healing brush and content aware for the power lines. Recently learned about this, and it seems to work quite well with straight powerlines. What about ones that sag and are therefore not straight? Do you trace with pen tool and then use brush with content aware setting to remove them?