advice needed

[sGu]

How do you remove the nets/fence on the foreground of an image?

I took the following shots on a recent trip to a zoo, but within close range, i couldn't blur the fence enough to make them invisible. So i was wondering if there any good techniques in photoshop would allow to you minimise it or even make it disappear.

http://gu.smugmug.com/photos/6166078-M.jpg

http://gu.smugmug.com/photos/6166109-M.jpg

[larsesp1]

it would be easier to say if the picture-links worked!!

[Scottes]

I can't see the pictures either.

But if you were shooting through a fence of some sort and you're getting a kind of "haze" or out-of-focus effect where the wires areas, well, there's not much you can do. I wouldn't even attempt to fix it (if it's what I'm thinking).

The best thing you can do is get as close to the fence as you can. Push the lens hood up against it. Try to line up a hole in the center of the fence. A large to mid-sized aperture (f/5.6 - f/11) will help keep the wires completely out of focus to invisibility. The smaller the DoF means that it's more likely that the fence will be completely out of focus. A long focal length will also help.


This image was taken through 2 chain link fences about 2 or 2.5 feet apart. I pushed the camera right up to the first fence and lined up a hole, and the long focal length (400mm) kept the second fence out of focus. You can't even tell that any fences were there.

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/wolf.jpg

[sGu]

strange, i can see them ... :roll:

well, i tried pushing thru the fence, but not all of them are big enough to push lens thru, i did what i could.

[Scottes]

Strange, I can see them now. The kestrel(?) is a great pic.

You don't have to push the lens through the fence, but right up to it. However, that looks like the fine black mesh that I've seen in the local zoo. I was also not successful in making it disappear when I tried. The wide-spaced silver chain link fences are much easier it seems.

Fixing them in Photoshop would be a struggle with poor end results I'd say.

[sGu]

i thought it would be nearly impossible to touch up in photoshop afterwards, some of the shots r okay when i stay far away then zoom in, so there is not much i can do to fix it now, is it ...