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Take a People-Free Photo in a Crowded Place

Posted by Rakesh KumarRakesh Kumar on Monday, August 08, 2011

You are on a popular site and you could really imagine the place without all the people in the way of lovely place. Sounds like you're unlucky and you just buy a postcard of that place, right? Not with this trick. Do you have tripod abundance, time to take a dozen photographs of the site? Take some test shots to find the exposure you want, set your camera in manual mode and set the exposure, and start snapping away. Take as many pictures you need to make every part of the scene as people mill about covering and uncovering parts of the frame to arrive. Take a few extra for safety.


When you return home, open all the series of images in Photoshop CS3 Extended. From the top menu, choose File> Scripts> Statistics. In "Stack Mode Select" dialog, select the "median".


After breaking a few details, will spit out a new Photoshop image with no one on it. You may need to be a part of their individual files to be used to clean some items in the process. You take 20 exposure do the trick.

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