Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Saturday evening, Anne and I spent time with our friends at the Home County Folk Festival in London, Ontario. I sat in my seat a distance from the stage, and shot with long focal lengths of 150mm to 600mm.
This distance actually provides a nice view of the performers - without looking up at them if standing right in front of the stage. The main issues are keeping audience and extraneous pieces of gear from obstructing the performers.
I did a decent job of that, but on a few I decided to try the "Inpainting Brush Tool" (basically Content Aware tool) in Affinity Photo. While not always perfect, still I was amazed that I could draw these things and they would disappear. I could never clone, and get anything close to the results as when I kept going over the areas to get an acceptable look.
These first two images show 1) a perfect scenario where simple non-obtrusive elements can easily be taken out while keeping textures and the naturalness of the surroundings and 2) a complete elimination of elements that cover part of the subject - - - all with straight out of the camera frames and ones drawn over with the Inpainting Brush Tool:
This distance actually provides a nice view of the performers - without looking up at them if standing right in front of the stage. The main issues are keeping audience and extraneous pieces of gear from obstructing the performers.
I did a decent job of that, but on a few I decided to try the "Inpainting Brush Tool" (basically Content Aware tool) in Affinity Photo. While not always perfect, still I was amazed that I could draw these things and they would disappear. I could never clone, and get anything close to the results as when I kept going over the areas to get an acceptable look.
These first two images show 1) a perfect scenario where simple non-obtrusive elements can easily be taken out while keeping textures and the naturalness of the surroundings and 2) a complete elimination of elements that cover part of the subject - - - all with straight out of the camera frames and ones drawn over with the Inpainting Brush Tool:



