Feeling and Seeing the final photo when the camera is pressed against your eye is important. One thing we talk about a lot when we’re out shooting on our workshops is “How will you finish the photo.” There are times that part of that conversation is removing the “touch of man” and a very common removal are wires. This morning at a favorite pond of mine, we were shooting sunrise. Shooting with the D4s / 18-35AFS at 20mm, the two wires stretching across the pond were very obvious. These are actually incredibly easy to remove!
To remove the wire, you need your Spot Healing Brush tool. Make sure its Soft Edge and that you’re Sampling All layers. I prefer doing this in a Empty Layer. Click on one end of the wire you want to remove. Then move down to the other end of the wire. Hold down the Shift Key and click again. You’ll see Photoshop draw a line between the two click and the wire disappear. That simple! One other finishing tip to add here. Photographing a reflection in water, water “sucks” up a stop of light so it’s exposure and color is richer than reality, in this case the sky. So in ACR, a Split Grad is used, dialed down -1 and saturation brought up to 25. This evens out the exposure top and bottom. So knowing these tools when you go click at the camera makes going click at the computer quick and easy.