While walking in Duke Forest, I took a series of photos of this stone wall from slightly different vantage points. The idea was that I could then overlay the images in Photoshop and keep the good parts of each one, removing the foreground small trees and branches.
It worked OK once I got the hang of layers, but there were still a couple of problems. Some of the vantage points were too different — I needed to be more careful about keeping the angles parallel. The other problem was that some rock parts were covered in all of the photos, so I had to fill in that area from other parts of the wall.
Bill tells me that’s what I should have done in the first place — just take one photo and use fake/duplicated rocks to replace the foreground material. My way seems more honest, even though the cleaned up image is still a fake.
You’re not planning to sell the house and airbrushing the pictures, right?