Elia Locardi
The Majestic Courtyard - (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Sometimes scouting locations is the easy part & it’s the time of day that becomes tricky. Even when you think you got it figured out, things don’t exactly go as planned. I wrote a fun little article about choosing the right moment for photography. Check it out.
This primary goal for this photo, “The Majestic Courtyard,” was to capture the dramatic lighting at night. The secondary goal was to minimize the amount of people in the shot. Unfortunately, while the lighting was phenomenal, there were still way too many people in the shot.
So, I decided to give early morning blue hour a shot. I knew that there would be absolutely nobody there at 6am so I got up really early. I was right. The only problem was, none of the interior blue and green lights were on and it gave the scene a more flat and yellow look... Crap.
I had a decision to make. Take a loss with the lighting and go with the easier photo to process. The other option was to keep the shot with the good lighting and spend a few extra hours in post.
So I did the most logical thing possible. I spent 2.5 Hours removing all the people with the Photoshop Clone Stamp. ;) I couldn’t help it. I was totally in love with the lighting.
Check out this Post Processing Before and After to watch all the people magically disappear.
* From the Blame The Monkey blog: here
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* All comments are welcome & Monkey Business is strongly encouraged. If you have questions, I would love to hear them. Check me out at BlameTheMonkey.comThanks for viewing!
The Majestic Courtyard - (Istanbul, Turkey)
Circle me on Google+ and join the most active community of photographers on the interweb
You can also find me on other social media sites like: Facebook and Twitter
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Sometimes scouting locations is the easy part & it’s the time of day that becomes tricky. Even when you think you got it figured out, things don’t exactly go as planned. I wrote a fun little article about choosing the right moment for photography. Check it out.
This primary goal for this photo, “The Majestic Courtyard,” was to capture the dramatic lighting at night. The secondary goal was to minimize the amount of people in the shot. Unfortunately, while the lighting was phenomenal, there were still way too many people in the shot.
So, I decided to give early morning blue hour a shot. I knew that there would be absolutely nobody there at 6am so I got up really early. I was right. The only problem was, none of the interior blue and green lights were on and it gave the scene a more flat and yellow look... Crap.
I had a decision to make. Take a loss with the lighting and go with the easier photo to process. The other option was to keep the shot with the good lighting and spend a few extra hours in post.
So I did the most logical thing possible. I spent 2.5 Hours removing all the people with the Photoshop Clone Stamp. ;) I couldn’t help it. I was totally in love with the lighting.
Check out this Post Processing Before and After to watch all the people magically disappear.
* From the Blame The Monkey blog: here
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* All comments are welcome & Monkey Business is strongly encouraged. If you have questions, I would love to hear them. Check me out at BlameTheMonkey.comThanks for viewing!