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Do you Remove the Stars from your twilight skies (incase QC thinks hot-pixel)


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I certainly do and not just stars from evening skies, anything that looks like a suspect pixel I just get rid of it. Is anyone else this aggressive in the QC prep of their photos? What do you do for clean-up?

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Not quite on topic but I remove distant birds if I think that QC or the buyer might think they are sensor spots. Back in 1991 not very far from here there was a project to re-introduce the Red Kite which were practically extinct in most of the country. It has been such a great success that I could probably look out the window and see one now up in the trees. These are very big birds, you can literally see them for miles and I once removed over 50 from a particular landscape view. I felt bad doing it though, mind you they're still on the RAW file thanks to Lightroom's non-destructive editing.

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1 hour ago, Harry Harrison said:

Not quite on topic but I remove distant birds if I think that QC or the buyer might think they are sensor spots. Back in 1991 not very far from here there was a project to re-introduce the Red Kite which were practically extinct in most of the country. It has been such a great success that I could probably look out the window and see one now up in the trees. These are very big birds, you can literally see them for miles and I once removed over 50 from a particular landscape view. I felt bad doing it though, mind you they're still on the RAW file thanks to Lightroom's non-destructive editing.

Hi Harry,

 

I remove birds too (for the same reason) - It's just that today I was deleting stars... Thanks for the reply, I'm looking forward to hearing from more photographers on this.

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I remove birds if they're blurred, unwanted, or so far away they look like random dots. And corners of buildings or lamposts if they encroach into the shot near the top due to converging verticals. I leave stars in:

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5 hours ago, Mark Scheuern said:

I once cloned out Sylvester Stallone. 

 

🤣 Yes, that Sylvester has a way of photobombing stock photos!

 

19 hours ago, Kent Johnson said:

I certainly do and not just stars from evening skies, anything that looks like a suspect pixel I just get rid of it. Is anyone else this aggressive in the QC prep of their photos? What do you do for clean-up?

 

Usually I prefer to leave the stars there as part of a  nightfall scene. I've removed birds that are just a bit of a tiny, distracting blob or spot. I've also removed things like a bit of branch poking in from the side that is distracting.

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On 28/10/2024 at 10:29, Chuck Nacke said:

Anything that is not part of the context or the image, distracting, etc., I would remove or darken.

 

Chuck

Yes, composition improvement too, branch etc. Bit of dodge and burn.

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No, I just leave stars in the picture. Never had a problem with QC. I usually remove birds, though.

 

What I sometimes do is select the sky in lightroom and run it through a noise filter.

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