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MChristopher:
I was shooting a soccer game and quickly realized my shots were being killed by orange cones along the sidelines. The look like a took a paintbrush in photoshop and drew them onto the picture. I'm including an image of what I'm talking about, cropped to keep the kid of the picture. The image of him was sharp, but the eyes are drawn immediately to a cone that wasn't nearly that bright or cartoonish on the field. Is it just me, my camera or has this been a problem for others? I can't say I am often taking photos near cones.

5D3, shot in raw. Lightroom 4.1 to process.

AmbientLight:
I don't think this can have anything to do with your gear. The problem is simply caused by the cones ability to reflect light, which creates that unpleasant effect in your shots.

Why don't you use LR to remove those cones? Since the cone sits in an area of nice bokeh, you can remove it without losing any valuable information. The problem may just be how much time this will take  :P.

jVillaPhoto:
The orange cone is sitting on all green, so of course it's gonna stick out like a sore thumb  ;D 
Easily removable though!

MChristopher:
Thanks for the responses. It was just strange to see what looked like glowing candycorn speckled on all my shots. I'm no stranger to removing objects from photos, I had just bever come across something as artificial looking as these cones. I figured someone had probably run into the cones before.

prestonpalmer:
it will take 2 seconds to remove the cone in LR or PS.  The 5D3 is great at picking up photos!

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