How to take a magnificent photo like this?

June 18, 2012

So what is so special about this? Well, the famous ‘Hall of Mirrors’ in the palace of Versailles can hardly be empty of visitors; so how can you take a shot like this?

Scott Kelby who has taken and edited this – or rather shots – explains every thing.

This is a shot I took inside the palace of Versailles, just outside Paris for my travel photography class. Although it looks like I got lucky and there were no tourists in its famous “Hall of Mirrors” actually there were tourists all over the hall (and in every frame I shot). I pulled a “tourist removal trick” which is part photography technique mixed with some Photoshop magic. You stand still and take a number of frames over a few minutes as people move through the hall, then you take them all into Photoshop and remove all the tourists by adding a layer mask and painting them away. It takes all of two minutes (I cover it in the class), but it works amazingly well.

Scott Kelby

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