![]() If I screw up, I can discard this layer and start over. It will mean that later, if I decide I want the power lines in there and don't know why I would do that, but if I do, I can just discard this layer and they'll come back. So I'm making a new layer down here in the layers palette that will keep this edit discreet. I'm going to use the healing brush tool to get rid of this and I'm going to do this edit on a separate layer. So I've just launched from Bridge into Photoshop. This is a very easy edit to make in Photoshop. Let's take these power lines out as long as we're here. And so you'll see what the image really is. You will probably not have an image in your head of what the image should be. ![]() At that point, you will probably have forgotten what your initial impulse was. ![]() Do your edits, move onto another image, come back to this one in a couple of months. ![]() Another very easy thing you can do is just set the image aside for a while. Oh and then suddenly it opens up and I see them. I'm having to really look at the image and I, right away here, I see, oh, look, there's stuff here I don't want there. I'm no longer seeing the finished product that I had envisioned. I am no longer seeing that image that was in my mind's eye. Because as I look at the edges, I've now gotten away from whatever my concept of the image is. What can you do about it? One thing is you can do the same thing you do while looking through the camera, which is before you commit to the image by putting it on paper or posting it somewhere, take a little trip around the edges of the image. That's really all I have to say about this image and I don't know what to tell you about that problem other than be aware of it, be aware that you do, in post-production just like in the camera, see what you want to see. I was really seeing all of that stuff very clearly and just not paying attention to these extra noisy details that my brain was filtering out. I was so attentive to the image in my mind's eye, I was so focused on the image in my mind's eye, which was about this row of stuff and this row of stuff and the light in here and whether I had my vignette right and whether I liked how things were centered in the frame. We don't often talk about it in post-production but it's just as prevalent there. And I think we're all familiar with looking through the camera and not being able to see certain things. Now this is, honestly, a very embarrassing thing to admit, but really, I just did not see them. And I got all the way to the point of pressing the print button before I noticed these two power lines. It's not a great image, but I wanted to try it on paper. And I liked the relationship well enough here. I converted to black and white, and I made sure to put a lot of brightness in here and in here and to darken and vignette the surrounding area to really bring focus to the middle of the image. There wasn't much going on with the light but I figured I could repaint the light later. And I was struck, while I was standing there at the scene, by the possible relationship between the fence here and the line of power lines here, the row of power lines here. I took this in Point Reyes, just north of San Francisco. This is a pretty standard landscape shot, black and white landscape shot.
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