It's a busy time of year at work as I slog through thousands of pictures to find the few prize winners that will grace our annual calendar. I'm also tossing around layouts that I'll probably show to the decision makers on Friday. I think this 'look' will be the winner:

In our business there are a lot of things that need to be right about a picture. Everyone needs to be in safety compliance, we don't want to show proprietary information - either our own, or our clients - and we want it to be an interesting picture! My simple mantra for the guys out in the field is SOMETHING IN THE FOREGROUND AND AN EXPANSIVE JOBSITE IN THE BACK. One of our core clients' few jobs this year is already done and this picture was the best that anyone bothered to snap.

It looks fine, right? People in the foreground, jobsite in the back. But the two guys holding the stick...well, you don't have to know what you're looking at to wonder how many men it takes to hold a stick. The answer should be one. In the actual situation, one man is training the other, but for the sake of appearances I altered the situation a little bit:

Easy peasy. There's no how-to tutorial to accompany this because it is pure clone tool. One of the best things about our job sites is monotonous patterns that can easily be modified to clear off camera date stamps or remove wayward safety hazards. Or like that one time I took out the handicap parking lines from our parking lot after we closed it off in order to have a bbq. That will just be our little secret.

 

PoP has changed with the seasons: posting is now on Wednesdays and Heather of thingsandthin.gs has joined us! Hooray. Cathy has been on a whirlwind of posts including a new advice column, and Sarah is taking her turn at a little bit of slack. But she's got plenty of quality posts that I am behind on, so no worries.