Headless Chickens?

[rh1944]

I wandered into a 40th anniversary of the Singer Owners club. There were lots of cars there and I took some potentially good shots of the cars. My wife then pointed out that as the cars were low and sporty, the people in the background were beheaded.

What's the consensus - publish beheaded people with nice cars or just publish the ones with whole or no people behind? I hate to throw photos away but some times I guess you just must.

 

[Nixtoo]

careful cropping?

 

[DiddyDave]

Carful cropping more like



Backgrounds, always gotta watch your backgrounds!

DD

 

[mattyh]

:shake: Awful pun DD.

I doubt there was much you can do, it's a fact of shows that if you're trying to shoot on a busy show day, you're likely to get people in the background.

Maybe you could try blurring the background, so it's not so obvious they're headless?

 

[Garry Edwards]

Not much help to you now, but wouldn't it have been a good idea to have used a low viewpoint o avoid the problem (and make the cars look more heroic?)

 

[rh1944]

Not much help to you now, but wouldn't it have been a good idea to have used a low viewpoint o avoid the problem (and make the cars look more heroic?)

Good thinking. I did manage some decent shots from a standing position, a question of patience. Some people just stood there in the line of shot even though it was clear I was trying to take a photograph of a car.

 

[mobilevirgin]

This thread needs

 

[rh1944]

I am away from home at the moment. Pics will follow.

 

[grim8634]

Some fancy photoshop you could remove them?


ooh or even draw them some heads!

You can use this one for free

 

[rh1944]

Here are four shots, two of each car. With and without headless chicken.

Car #1 with headless chicken

Car #1 without

Car #2 with headless chicken

Car #2 without