I’ve been playing around some with portrait/family type photography lately, and it’s been fun. I love working with people one-on-one or two-on-one. I know it’s kind of a generic genre of photography to get into, but I am in this for the relationships and collaboration, after all. Here are some that turned out nicely of a girl named Adrienne. She has a beautiful smile and was super fun to shoot.
I haven’t edited them at all yet, and I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way I can take out that pole in the background of some of them. Any ideas?
Camera: Canon t2i; 24-70L
These are pretty good for being straight out of the camera – great portraits!
Depending on the software you have, getting rid of the pole should be pretty easy. With Photoshop (or PS Elements), just use the clone tool to copy the surrounding sky over the pole.
If you don’t use Adobe, most other serious editing software will have the same sort of tool.
You could potentially use the Heal tool as well, but the pole is big enough that cloning would probably be better.
The tricky part is going to be when you get away from the sky and close to Adrienne’s hair – that will involve zooming in close and doing a lot more detail cloning. A bit of playing around with it, though, and it’ll come out fine.
If you use Lightroom, you can do some of the cloning in there, but it’ll get a lot tougher for the detail work around her hair. It’s quicker just to use Photoshop if it’s available.
Thanks, Peter! I’ll update the post w/ the edited versions when it’s finished.