To view these edits as before & after GIFs please visit my Behance profile. To see them in video format scroll to the bottom of this page.

The cardiology center was open to patients while I was there so I had to photograph most spaces as they were.

A close-up of the above image.

I didn’t notice the collection of coat hangers when I was taking this shot.  I originally thought this edit was going to be too difficult for me to do, but I surprised myself with the results. Tedious but satisfying. I removed my tripod legs from the reflection in the washing machine, too.

Close-up.

Sometimes utility boxes just have to go where they have to go. And then you can erase them.

The client didn’t request this edit but I probably should have noticed that the rug wasn’t where it was supposed to be.

This was a satisfying edit to complete.

I didn’t always get the opportunity to tidy a space before photographing it (and in medical settings I tried not to touch anything unless given permission to do so). For this image I removed some distracting elements digitally.

This ‘P’ was a little trickier to cleanly remove than I was expecting it to be. The edit disturbed the angled shadow to the left. I recreated it with some good, old-fashioned dodging and burning.

The client didn’t request this edit, but I couldn’t leave those cables like that (and I corrected the white balance and exposure).

Yikes!

Bathrooms were sometimes tricky to photograph.  I could have lowered my tripod below the bottom edge of the mirror, but I never liked the look of photographs where the camera looked like it was “eye-level” with the countertop. So I would try arrange the tripod and camera so that they wouldn’t be too difficult to remove in Photoshop. I would also correct the white balance in the rooms that were visible beyond the space that I was photographing and try to make the final image look seamless. Another example similar to the two above can be found on the Color Change & Correction page.

I couldn’t help but try to remove this chair after delivering the photo to the client!

After delivering this photo of a Sheetz gas station in Roanoke Rapids, NC to the client, I decided to clean it up a bit (real estate photography is supposed to represent reality, so clients rarely requested that objects be removed from photos).

I started to remove distractions one at a time and kept going until this park looked clean and tidy.

Venetian blinds (and lamp shades, and missing light bulbs) were my constant nemesis.  I tried to straighten these blinds (two vertical slats just beyond the table) before taking the photo but they wouldn’t budge and I didn’t want to break anything!

A simple, but effective, edit. Rose the Giraffe has been freed!