A polite way to make people vanish.
A student has kindly shared with me the marvels of Photoshop CS3. A new feature is called “People Remover” where you can remove fellow tourists from the stairs of Angkor Wat with just a click on the mouse.
In the book Special Problem from Life Library of Photography Series from the year 1971, the solution is to mount camera on a very steady tripod, a red filter to reduce the amount of light, aperture set at a minimum of F64 and a very very slow film, say ASA 64. Oh yes, the chapter is titled, “A polite way to make people vanish.”