When working on images of Marblehead, I allow myself some creative license in cloning out elements that are distracting to the scene. This might mean filling in a bald patch of grass, removing litter that I hadn’t spotted at the time to physically pick up or, in the case of the harbor, removing buoys and mooring markers. While a filled harbor will remain untouched by my clone brush, an empty or not-yet-filled one often looks better after removing many of these markers.
In the case of this image, there was one other element that I felt justified in removing – the water tower and cell phone antenna. This was a very out of place element in this otherwise calm scene of a sunset over Marblehead harbor taken last week. I included an image of the ‘before’ image below for you to judge for yourself whether the elements should have been left in place.
