Street lamps. Annoying or what?

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Not just street lamps either. Traffic lights and more or less anything else on a pole. I find it very difficult to capture a street scene or an old building in a town or city due to bloody things on poles! How do you go about it? I don't really want to get into the habit of shopping out poles otherwise I'd be there all week.

Recent example - I wanted to capture an image of the Leeds City Hall which is a fantastic looking building. I could not find a single angle where there wasn't a dirty great big traffic light or street lamp taking up half the view.

Annoying as chuff. :bang:

What do you guys do about this kind of thing?
 
I suppose chucking black hoods over the lights would not be a good idea? I have a slightly different problem in that one of my bedrooms would need VERY heavy blackout curtains as it has a streetlamp lighting it from 2 sides so it would be almost impossible to use it for sleeping in and other than taking the bulb out of the light I don't see an answer.

I suppose you could try writing to the council and saying they could be greener and save money if they did not use as much lighting in the city center :shrug:

Reading that I'm glad I am not interested in getting pictures of buildings.
 
Is it the light source, or the pole itself?

There's a train of thought to say that if they are there, they should be represented in the picture....
 
The poles themselves as opposed to the lights. I'll just have to find a better angle for it.
 
Oh yes do I know what you mean.... It is either street signs or cars in the way what a pain. When I am in charge I won't let cars or street signs anywhere near a lovely building.

Jenny.

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