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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by dylan604 on Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:35AM (#17841216)
I often use long exposure (with heavy ND filters) during the day for the specific purpose of removing people from the image. Cityscapes in a busy area is nearly impossible to not have people in the image which makes it difficult to sale the image. I'm only taking 20-30 seconds exposures vs the 7 minutes mentioned in the article, but it really makes eliminating the crowds a much more manageable task.
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by jedberg on Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:30PM (#17841666)
Have you seen the technique where you take many quick photos over the course of a few minutes, and then use photoshop to create a single image of all the parts that don’t change?

https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/remove-tourists-stack-m...

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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by ateesdalejr on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:04PM (#17899347)
Ah! I'd seen something like this but instead of photoshop they used Python+Pillow to XOR a bunch of images together.
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by dylan604 on Saturday August 25, 2018 @02:58PM (#17842022)
I am familiar with this technique, and it works well for a single still image. My end goal is rarely a single image as I'm usually shooting timelapse. Since it's timelapse, the motion blur still shows motion, but it also pretty much ensures nobody is identifiable.
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by TomK32 on Saturday August 25, 2018 @04:25PM (#17842419)
Come Fly With Me did a really fantastic timelapse effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnhCeNkMO8 where the people in the foreground didn't run at regular speed.
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by amelius on Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:29PM (#17841665)
This makes me wonder. Is there an algorithm that allows taking multiple short-exposure photos, and eliminating the moving parts by copy+pasting areas from different photos in the set?
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by hellofunk on Saturday August 25, 2018 @02:32PM (#17841909)
Photoshop does this. See your sister commenter.
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by dsego on Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:56PM (#17841775)
just take the median
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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by modzu on Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:51PM (#17842286)
do u have a gallery online?
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