ISTFIDT: ignore extraneous people in scenes/photos

gavin

gavin

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If I'm shooting people, then that's (obviously) OK.
If I'm shooting "things" with people there for context/scale, also OK.

If, however, I'm shooting architecture or "pure" landscape, then if anyone gets into the shot I'm not OK. Emphasis on "I'm" not OK; not the third party's fault, obviously - the world is for all of us to enjoy - but I'll often wait and wait to get that empty-of-people moment.

Anyone else suffer from this malady?
 
Yes, sometimes but I try not too. Often people can make the picture.

Try treating them simply as shapes, wait until the shapes line up into something pleasing and then fire the shutter.
 
I wait for the scene to clear of people. I've seen some good photos where the odd figure or two elevate it to great, but sadly, none of them are mine.
 
Me too!
I usually go out and shoot right after sunrise, so chances that there is no other soul are higher. However, if there are other people, I wait and wait until they are gone... I am not the very patient kind but I had to learn with photography :D
If I have "no choice", I try to shoot without people's face visible (just to let them stay anonymous and also in case of architecture/landscape photo, I feel it is better to only have shapes or backs so the image remains all about the topic, which is not people but the architecture or the landscape).
 
?How's about .....

?rest the camera on a wall etc and take several shots at same settings.

Then in PS (eg):

- stack the images
- mask out those people you don't want, or leave them in selectively.

Never actually done it myself but I recall seeing a fairly expensive plug in a few years ago that did this automatically
 
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