BRITISH COLUMBIA PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
AT NIGHT: REMOVING TOURISTS
On one of my first visits to Vancouver Island, I was kindly shown around the capital city of Victoria,
which included a nighttime visit to the main harbor area. It was here that I took this photo of the British
Columbia Parliament Buildings. I set up the camera on a tripod just before dusk and then waited for the
illuminations to be switched on. After half an hour or so, the balance between the ambient dusk light
and the warm lights on the building was just about perfect.MARTIN EVENING
DEVELOPING THE SHOT
When it comes to nighttime shooting urban scenes,
you really don’t have much of a window to work within,
although of course, it’s slightly easier at more extreme
latitudes where the sun sets more slowly.
The before shot on the next page shows how there were
a number of tourists visible in the scene, such as those who
were sitting on the steps or around the water fountain. Bywaiting patiently and shooting lots of photos, I was able to
edit the images in Lightroom Classic and then auto-process
the photos in Photoshop as a multi-layered image to make
the tourists (mostly) appear to vanish. More specifically,
I did this by merging a series of photos into a smart object
and then applying the Median Stack Mode processing
to remove the people, as shown in the following steps.