A recent assignment had me shooting in downtown Bellevue in the middle of the day to get the exterior shot you see below. The day was absolutely perfect. Just look at those clouds. See anything glaringly wrong with the picture? Maybe the huge semi-truck parked in the lower right?

Great Sky, Good Exposure, Bad Truck

I waited around as long as I could, but the truck didn’t leave. Drat. I considered using Photoshop to recreate the area where the truck was. That would take some time. I considered outsourcing to a professional retoucher. That would be more money.

Luckily this was during the string of really nice weather we had in August and the next day was going to be nice too. So I returned to the same spot the next day at the same time. Yeah, no big truck this time. But the day wasn’t as nice.

Boring Sky, Good Exposure, NO TRUCK!

I tried setting up in the exact same spot, with the tripod extended to it’s full height and used the same lens. Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to get it framed exactly the same. Thankfully it was close enough. I brought the two images into Photoshop, adjusted the second days image to match closely to the first. Then taking out the truck was a breeze.

Great Sky, Great Exposure, No Truck.

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