Sometimes you end up on location and you find the frame that will look the best visually is obstructed either by something man made or something natural like a tree. The man made stuff can still be taken care of but you just can not chop off a tree for a shot. I was stuck in a similar situation recently, I took a back up shot first just to be safe and then I captured real frame. I was thinking I will do something about this tree in post but I had no idea that I will end up chopping the tree, at least in post it's all legal. This is the 'Before' shot Apart from the tree I ended up growing some grass in the foreground, removing the cars and stacks of bricks from the background. And lastly I thought if I have cut a tree I must plant one too so I planted a tree in the background, that tree helped me get rid of the stack of bricks. The client was more than happy. Looking at it now I feel I can still make it look better, but then I think about the Fine art images ...