{"id":1451,"date":"2023-11-11T19:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2023-11-11T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:28:38","slug":"photo-editing-remove-a-telephone-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/photo-editing-remove-a-telephone-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Editing: Remove a Telephone Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After editing in Photoshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A common problem in outdoor photography : unwanted obstacles. Digitally removing the object can be easy or very difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the object obscures a plain background such as blue sky or beach sand, then computer software can easily fill-in any space that is vacant when deleting the unwanted object. If the object obscures something more complex such as a person’s face, there is no way to recreate what the camera never captured. While this is surely changing with today’s advances in generative AI, there will always be limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this image of the Groveton covered bridge, removing the yellow marker post would not be difficlut. The real problem is a telephone\/utility pole that stands near the front of the bridge; see the unmodified photo below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technique that solves this problem is to capture two images. After taking the first photo, take a few steps to one side and make the second photo. That second capture reveals what was hidden behind the pole in the first capture. In post-processing, I removed the pole and then used pieces of the second image to fill in the blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Original photo – Before editing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course there are still many wires and shadows of wires across the image. Removing those can be easy against a clear blue sky but becomes more difficult across varying clouds, trees, and the shingle roof. I expect generative AI can make this task much easier … and better. If you look closely at the edited image, you may find a few breaks in cable shadows that I have not yet remedied. AI could potentially figure out the pattern of the roof shingles and extend the pattern, completely fixing the shadow breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digitally removing an unwanted telephone pole may be easy and may be very difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital","category-photoshop","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}