It's been too long since I looked at core77 - too many cool
things! This is worth sharing, though: a service for removing tourists
from your tourist photos. Apparently you have to provide several shots,
and the service (algorithm? Software sweat shop? Hope it's the former)
provides you with photos free of irritating people. Personally, I like
to have someone in my photos - otherwie they seem a little sterile to
me - but hey.
These
snow globes are more to my taste. Deliciously whimsical, and not a little dark ;) What
did I tell you? Cool stuff!
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I saw a funny picture by a photographer not long ago whose name eludes me. It was at the leaning tower of Pisa - but the focus was on the tourists. About 5 or 6 of them all in the typical tourist-holding-up-the-tower pose.
I imagine I use the same process myself - take the same shot several times, then wherever there's a tourist (or other unwanted moving intrusion) in the emptiest shot, copy the corresponding space from another shot where it's empty. I used this approach on a bunch of my photographs of The Gates.
If you can do that by algorithm, all the better.
the kind of shot I really like is where the camera has been stopped right down to give a long time exposure, and the tourists take themselves out of the picture through motion blur. But that requires a tripod, and I don't usually carry one around.
I could do this in pc paint, just pick up the color of the pavement and scrub over the people. By the way, isn't that an arm, still left on center screen, just at the base of the building? Looks like the remover left a bit.
edit, I blew up the photo, and while the positioning is just right to be an outstretched arm, it is just a piece of fencing which holds up the flagpole.
Hey, wow - that is way cool! I must admit, that while I've posted a number of snow globe ideas to the Halfbakery, it never occurred to me that I could actually go out and make some.
Looking at those, I'm inspired to do some Dawn of the Dead snowglobes. Now, where do you get the supplies...?
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