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Post-processing the BP Bridge photograph

Post-processing the BP Bridge photograph

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Post-processing the BP Bridge photograph

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- Now that we're back on the computer I'm going to show you a great trick for dealing with crowds. Often times when you're photographing in cities you get to a composition, maybe it's an iconic location or it's just a city that has people and they're in the way. So, what I've done here is from the 71st floor we shot down on the bridge, Frank Gehry's BP Bridge, and people were walking through. But I kept my camera on a tripod the whole time and took multiple images. And now I'm going to demonstrate the trick. So, I'm going to go ahead and select all the images. And I'm taking, let's see, three, six, I'm taking eight. I think eight should be enough. I'm going to right-click, Edit In, Open as Layers in Photoshop. The key is to take enough and what we're going to do is we're going to have Photoshop basically figure out what's different about each image and get rid of it. Alright, here in Photoshop the first step any time we're blending images is going to be to align. So, before we select…

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