We rode the tandem up Mt. Hamilton last week. It was a Friday so there were not very many cars on the road. We wanted to get a picture at the top but there was no one around to take it so we took turns taking each other’s picture standing behind the tandem with the Lick Observatory in the background. I then merged the two photos into one using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. I usually use Photoshop CS3, but wanted to try the photo merge feature of Photoshop Elements. They program offers three different types of photo merge so I picked the “Group Shot” one. Unlike prior photo merge options that just put one picture next to the other, you can use a “pencil” to draw around one portion of a photo and have it merged into the other one. I just drew around one person, including the shadow.

This approach allows the sky to be entirely from one picture so as to not show a line where there might be a difference in exposure. Here is the final picture. Can you see any evidence of it being a merged group shot?

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