Hi Seetha,
One of the challenges of travel photography nowadays, is that everybody is now a traveller! This can make the process of getting a good photograph of popular sites without getting people in the picture an almost impossible task.
Now, the question that you need to ask yourself is, do I want to include people in the picture or do I want to exclude them?
If you want to include people, then I think it is important that you are careful as to how you place them around the picture. In this particular photograph there is a person just showing in the bottom left corner of the picture, a guy in the lower right has his feet standing on the bottom edge of the frame and we can see three individuals at the top of the water fall – although we can only see half of them because the upper half is obscured against the landmass in the background.
If I were making this image I would have been inclined to wait for people in the upper part of the picture to move out of the way, along with the person on the left.
If you are working with a tripod here is another trick you can try. Make several images of exactly the same scene but with people in different positions. All you need to do then is stack the images on top of each other in Photoshop and then reveal the area of the picture where there are no people.
In the photograph below I have cloned out the person in the lower left and upper parts of the picture, but then I have also copied the central subject and moved him slightly to the right, so that his feet are not standing on the bottom of the frame.
For a little added drama I have also copied the hero into the centre of the image, scaled him down in size and then painted in a “power to the people” gesture for the fun of it.
This is a location that in all honesty, you could spend a week at, and you would probably get 100 different photos from the same subject if you pushed yourself. I would be inclined to review your photos from this location and see what other images you have that you might be able to rework.
Cheers, Anthony
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