[Christopher M.W.T]

4 Creative Projects that Bend the Reality of Street Scenes

The first one with Emptry LA, how was it done without cloning out the cars? i'd love to know.

[song_hm]

how about this...

[CWyatt]

Considering the Nakano shots of Tokyo aren't manipulated I guess it's possible the Logue ones aren't either. I still think the ND filters might have been possible even if they don't think so. Other than that all I can think of is cloning/merging.

The amazing thing is, these photographs weren’t staged, but rather manipulated.

That's such a strange thing to say.

[CWyatt]

how about this...

That looks probable. If you took a bunch of photos you would have a clear image of every piece of the street, without a car or person on it, and you could merge those and still have sharp clouds and trees etc if it was windy.

[rparmar]

The first one with Emptry LA, how was it done without cloning out the cars? i'd love to know.

It probably was cloning out the cars. Or a combination of that technique with the long exposure trick the article mentions. Or the median method posted above.

And with the new "content aware fill" feature everyone will be doing it!

[RawheaD]

I don't know how he did it, but if I were to do it here's how (this is actually a technique that I'd been thinking about trying for quite some time, but have never gotten around to it).

1. Stacking multiple ND filters for super long exposure -> 1 shot
2. Probably do #1 a couple times since there always will be that one object that tends to stay in one place long enough to show up as a ghost :-) -> use for cloning out
3. Take one normal shot for the moving parts (clouds, trees, traffic lights)

so, with 1 + 2 you get a car/people free road; mix and match with 3 and you get what appears to be a single, short-exposure shot.