Cabin at the Swedish coast - and a spot I don't know how to remove

[Sunhillow (Hansgeorg)]

What a pleasant scene! Thanks for sharing!

It took a while before I recognized that this thing is a head … it is wearing sunglasses
RT 5.9 dev and GIMP Heal Selection to remove the head.

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[seume]

Thanks to you all for the nice comments, good advices and beautiful image versions! The next days I will try it out (very busy …) - and I am fully convinced that I am now able to “remove the head” . After that I will post my version …

Thanks again …

[Popanz]

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[josemar127]

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[Popanz]

Have I already said, that I’m fascinated by this photography.
And have we talked about a monochrome version yet?

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[elstoc (Chris E)]

@seume

but I was completely unable to use the spot removal in this case to obtain something I could live with

I wonder what version of darktable you’re using? The spot removal tool was deprecated a while ago because its functionality is duplicated in retouch

[Roberto_Vacchi]

With ART 1.21 and GIMP

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Greetings. Roberto

[seume]

You are of course right: I have still the deprecated name in mind. I am using darktable 4.4.2 on fedora workstaion 39 (loving it).

[seume]

Hi all, thanks to your advices it was quite easy to get “rid of the head”! Without having seen the post of @Popanz my idea was also to go for BW. See below.

Really appreciate your ideas, beautiful images and advices - thanks!

[lightlover]

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[age]

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[123sg (Steven)]

Thanks for sharing your image!

[Jan_Holl (Jan Höll)]

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[seume]

i like your bright colours giving the scene calm peace …

[okieman]

From the perspective of a regular person viewing this photo in a frame on a wall, they will never notice that blip.

But, if you have reasonable cause to remove it, you could use the availability of open water to the right. Select a portion of that water as wide as the spot. Then, copy/paste and move the copy to a new layer. Then drag it to the left and do some blending with the erase tool, or whatever.

Philosophically, you are using part of the real image to obscure another portion of the real image. It is perhaps less fake than other approaches.

[EspE1]

@okieman

you are using part of the real image to obscure another portion of the real image. It is perhaps less fake than other approaches.

There is no “real image”.
Vision is an interpretative process, dependent on all the experiences we already have stored in our brains, and it’s constantly tricking us.
EDIT: It would be even more correct to say that vision is a construction process.
(Cameras also interpret what their sensors register. )

If saume saw the scene without any other human there, he should not hesitate to also create an image without.

[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Liquid Rescaled the image preserving the cabin/beach to a wide angled perspective look, then added some sky drama.

[difrkaguilar (Franklin Aguilar Matos)]

Nice capture

My version.

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Greetings from Havana, Cuba.

[seume]

Greetings from Austria! The slightly intensified green (esp the ocean) looks great …

[seume]

To be honest: this image puts a lonely coast and isolated cabin in your mind, but he reality is very different - don’t want to destroy any associations but this is close to badhytten in skanör …

But that’s what photography can be about: take what’s in front of your camera and create “your” vision …