Hey all, Haven't posted much for a while. Life has me running around. But I got a chance to go to a car/aircraft show today. Some of the set backs with these shows are for one, the cars are usually crammed to close together to get a good profile shot. Even with my 18mm, sometimes it just can't happen. The other thing of course is the masses of people. I got to this one about 5 mins after it opened. Still had a lot of people already there. So I usually go to these shows with my camera knowing that I am usually only gonna share the pics with family/friends.

Anyway, today I got a really cool shot of a C-47. I loved the lighting and POV. But the crowds and delineators/caution tape took away from it. So I tried my hand at the good old clone tool. After about an hour.. here is where it ended. I plan to post the final in the gallery. Let me know if you see any glaring mistakes please.

This isn't to toot my own horn on my skill.. more to show what some paitence can do to save a decent shot.

Thanks, Bruce

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Pretty nice job, at the resolution it is at i cant see any glaring mistakes (i had a look at the doctored shot before looking at the real one justto see if i could work out where the cloning was). Anyway, after i had a comparison one thing came to mind... the "scaffolding" which holds the wheel under the wing: should there not be a gp on the right side... ie is there a person standing behind blocking the concrete coming through to outline the structure like on the left side of the "scaffolding"?

Minor thought because i wouldnt have noticed it without the original

You are correct man!! After staring at it for an hour I missed it. Thanks a ton, I will see what I can do before I print it out.

Appreciate it.
-B

Nice work with the clone tool. Are you going to remove the lens flairs?

Was the air show in Adelaide?

Sorry, more questions than answers:)

If you bring a tripod to these events, just shoot several shots, layer them in PS and remove tourists to reveal the blank spots. You'll need more pictures when it's very busy, but with some luck there's a blank spot for everyone in one of the photo's.

You did an excellent job.

Sometimes when I need to clone a larger than normal area I'll make a copy of a "clean" region near the "contaminated" spot, move it over and glue it on. Sometimes I'll alter the orientation of the copied part or alter the transparent or opacity property. The often leaves slight edges, but they're easy to take care of with the Clone tool.

The reason I do this is that, at least for me, sometimes the clone tool ends up reducing the texture of the background, and a copy/paste helps to bring in some of the underlying texture from a nearby region.

Sometimes this just won't work, or it doesn't matter, or I have been able to get away with fewer dabs of the clone tool which will move around but not smear the texture.

I don't see this as a problem in your image, it just brought the copy/paste/clone edges method to mind for me.

Just to share some info (not to critice your fine job!): ever tried the blend modes with the clone brush? I find the bottom series (hue, saturation, color and luminosity) often very handy. But of course also overlay, darken, screen also have their uses.

Thanks all for the recent advice and tips. I will check em all out.
Thanks again... B