What’s wrong with this picture?
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o many times when we’re shooting, there are photographic problems that we just can’t fix at the moment. Unattractive lighting, bad backgrounds, the sky, and distracting elements are things we have to deal with all the time. In the case of the picture of tall ships above, the lighting was less than ideal. Overcast and misty weather is a familiar weather condition along the East Coast of the United States, but I didn’t want a bland and boring sky. The problem in replacing the background was all the rigging on the ships, particularly the tall ship in the foreground. Even Photoshop’s new Sky Replacement feature didn’t work because all of the lines that comprise the ship’s rigging are so fine that many of them disappear when the software attempts to distinguish between the foreground elements and the background.
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