what would be the easiest way to do this??

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

10/19/2009 09:16:21 AM · #1

Ok I took this pic at the Hattiesburg, MS zoo. The only prob is there is a fence in fron of him. I would love to take the fence out so it looks like I am about to get attacked....LOL What would be the quickes and easiest method to do that. Would clone do it???

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

10/19/2009 09:17:38 AM · #2

The quickest would be to jump the fence and ask him nicely to pose for you...! HMMM! Maybe that won't work!!!

Covert_Oddity

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

10/19/2009 09:20:05 AM · #3

Clone would do it, and the texture on most of the surfaces would lend itself to cloning but you're going to be there for ages taking all the wire out!!!

Can't think of an easier way though, sorry!

Dirt_Diver

Nikon D3s

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

10/19/2009 09:27:54 AM · #4

The best way to do this would be using the clone tool. If you have several good photos of the same guy I would use them to get the area's of the tiger where you have a fence in the way. Open them all up in PS and copy and paste them to create one image. You have a lot of fence there so it could take you days to remove the fence. The best way around this is wait for tiger to move further away from the fence and with a wide aperture shoot him again. This would put the fence out of focus and harder to see. If you do it slightly wrong though you would still see the dark area's of the fence. But it's good practice and could teach you some tricks. Practice moving in and out along with your subject moving in and out until you figure out what works.

Practice at a baseball park.

paynekj

Pentax K10D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

10/19/2009 12:30:21 PM · #5

The is a plug-in for Gimp called Resynthesizer that claims to be able to do this sort of thing, semi-automatically. It wouldn't surprise me if a similar thing exists for photoshop.

Simms

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/19/2009 12:39:15 PM · #6

Whilst cloning the fence out would be a time consuming task - it would actually produce quite good results on a busy image such as this - defintely a personal challenge but I would love to see the final result.

merchillio

Nikon D80

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

10/19/2009 02:15:26 PM · #7

Are you able to reshoot? or was this a one-shot deal?

Getting close to the fence and playing with the DOF, you might get the fence to "disapear", with no PSing involved

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

10/19/2009 02:21:01 PM · #8

I saw discussion of a software once where you could identify a pattern (the fence in this case) and the software would automatically remove it, replacing the missing pixels with nearest-neighbor pixels; you then went to work by hand and cleaned up the interim result. I can't remember what it was though, and it wasn't free....

R.

Louis

Nikon D800

Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D

10/19/2009 02:29:59 PM · #9

The best way in my opinion is a lot of time with dodge/burn, heal, clone, and your tablet. Check out the blue ribboner Chairman of the Board, plus his comment:

"I spent over 2 hours perfecting this shot so it could be what you see here. Cloning, dodging, burning, healing brush, sharpening actions... all tools that help take this from my trash bin, to the frontpage."

It's too bad the original isn't viewable any more, because it makes the end result all the more impressive.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

10/19/2009 02:36:16 PM · #10

Originally posted by merchillio:

Are you able to reshoot? or was this a one-shot deal?

Getting close to the fence and playing with the DOF, you might get the fence to "disapear", with no PSing involved

It was definately a 1 time thing...I took this pic when I had some time off during demobilization in south Mississipi. I am now in North-West Louisiana. I am gonna try my skills at removing the fence.

soup

Canon EOS-30D

10/19/2009 03:21:04 PM · #11

though - my guess would be there was a LOT less fence in the 'chairman of the board' shot....

Originally posted by Louis:

Louis

Nikon D800

Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D

10/19/2009 03:35:46 PM · #12

Originally posted by soup:

though - my guess would be there was a LOT less fence in the 'chairman of the board' shot....

Less overall "fence holes" because of the angle, but if I remember correctly, it was a rope fence, so the fence was thicker. It was overall a pretty impressive demonstration of the power of cloning.

michaelmonn

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/19/2009 04:06:18 PM · #13

ummm if you send me the full size i wouldnt mind working on it for you. i wouldnt have it in like one day or something like that but i like having things like that to allow me to procrastinate and not get any work done haha.

-max

CEJ

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

10/19/2009 04:43:48 PM · #14

Would something like Topaz Remask work for this? One of the examples shows some fairly intricate work on a tree. Just a thought.

10/19/2009 06:03:48 PM · #15

I think that I am gonna get to work on it tonight...I will begin the tedious task of cloning, etc...Thanks for the help. I need a lot of practice on that anyway......

Message edited by author 2009-10-19 18:04:17.

SDW

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

10/19/2009 07:08:36 PM · #16

Originally posted by cowboy221977:

I can easily be done but time consuming.
Example red circles.