People in the background who ruin the photo

Do you have photos in your collection that are kind of ruined by the fact that someone in the background looks awful for whatever reason?

Ugh, I am dealing with that. I was careless and took an important photo and there is a chick with a mullet in the backdrop. I still have to use this pic, but, damn, it sucks.

I remember years ago when I was a teenager I had a friend with these two horrid brothers. They ruined any photo they were in by acting like total idiots and making faces and whatnot. You couldn't get a decent picture if they were there. They thought they were being cool but didn't realize all they were doing was looking SO immature and childish.

I have two photos that include a niece, one when she was in her early-teens, and the other in her early-40's, slyly flipping the bird at the camera. I didn't like it but the pictures went into my photo albums, anyway. She was a bit embarrassed when I told her about them last year.

I guess I should warn people that whatever they do in front of the camera is NOT going to get the picture out of viewing. But. . . I don't wanna.

Red, was Mullet Girl part of the group in the picture? If not, can you "Photoshop" her out of the picture?

Alan, no she wasn't. But I was too worried. I did crop her out pretty well. I had to cut the main subject's elbow and dirt bike fender, but the pic is pretty cool. It is one of my son's sponsors who had his little son on his bike as he headed to staging and I want to send it as a suck up. I ended up cropping too much, but doing focal b/w and it looks pretty cool. Not perfect, but "mullet-less"!

I didn't know they still made mullets. Glad you weren't stuck with her.

The still do "make" them, but they are only produced by outdated models. ((who may or may not smoke meth))

During a beach getaway I took a pic with a random guy because he was cute. His friend creeped in at the last second with his flip flops on....and his feet are AWFUL! I had to crop everyone's feet LOL

That's why I try to be aware of what gets captured in the picture. I look at the background more than I do the subject.

Is that Tony in the background?

Alan Smithee wrote:
Is that Tony in the background?

ha HA!! these are too funny.

It happens all the time for me, because I'm always snapping pictures when I'm about and about. When I was a teenager, my folks, my brothers and I went on a vacation and while we were at a restaurant we took a really nice family picture. It would have been nicer if the lense didn't also capture strangers heads in the background.