'The Resurrection' (re-edit)

During a festival celebrating America's favorite holiday,these two girls dressed

up, and were caught in a moment of cheer. This photo is called 'The

Resurrection' because previously it was somewhat blurred, but that has been

cured through an Adobe tool, enough now for posting years later. Your ratings,

critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If you ratings and

critiques are harsh or very critical, or you wish to make a remark, please submit

a helpful and constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge

to help improve my photography. Thank! Enjoy! john

Still blurred but it is a nice photograph

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I'm not sure I get the point.

I post a photo (marked re-edit), and you post a photo, somewhat blurry, and say it's still a nice photo if blurry.

I'm not sure of the point; can you explain?

I'm just mystified.

john

John (Crosley)

Sorry, I should have been more explicit.

You posted a photo marked re-edit because you said originally it was blurred, and I re-posted your re-edited photo somewhat re-blurred saying it is still a nice photo if blurred.

Of course both versions (yours and mine) retain the original sin of a blurred capture.

There is not much more to say, except that I forgot to make local sharpness adjustments (as I did in this second try).

Why I did it? That's a great question, probably because I like the photo. I wouldn't have done at an exhibition.

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Long ago, maybe a decade or slightly more, when you were just joining Photo.net, as was I, I took this photo - maybe even slightly before.

I fell in love with the capture, but it was simply too blurry to score points, though I think (I didn't research the 2,200 photos in my portfolio) I posted it, blurry.

But Adobe, bless them, under the sharpness filter came up with a filter called 'Shake Reduction'.

The new filter (Filter>Sharpen (flyout menu)>Shake reduction), applies to any blur and not just to those caused by camera shake.  So, if you have a lens blur where focus was not correct, this filter can try to resolve it.  Here I used a 145 mm setting on a zoom at a Halloween street celebration under gloaming light (after sunset) and there was subject movement (not shake), and the result was subject blur which made the final result not really a good photo, but expressions and composition in my way of thinking made the photo worthy of being kept 10-11 years for consideration for reposting once a resolving tool (shake reduction) became available.

I imagine the 'shake reduction' tool derives from the same software NASA and the CIA use for resolving license plates  from photos taken from spy satellites -- the task is about the same -- you've seen it in all the movies.  There's a blurred photo, an operative of the CIA pushes a console button, electronic sounds are made, and all of a sudden we see the heretofore blurred license plate number resolve from a blurry photo crop recorded from a spy satellite or a drone, but was just too blurry before the process to discern.

Well, now it's available to us all without doing tricks with 'sharpening' as I once used to do.  Regrettably it must be applied to the whole photo, though parts can be chosen selectively for strongest treatment.  Look for more improvements in this important tool. I've used it to salvage and make very presentable several previously unviewable and unpostable photos and a couple of photos now seen and rated as 'important' that once were garbage.

I recommend trying it out, even on slightly blurry photos to give them pizzazz, not just on really blurry ones.

You might be surprised that ordinary optics seem to be producing Leica-like results, and if the photo is slightly but not really blurred, the artifacts will be almost imperceptible.

But there are artifacts in worse cases, and they can be severe, but compared to an out of focus shot that must be discarded or ignored, that can be the difference between a photo and wasted pixels.

Best to you, and thanks for explaining.

john

John (Crosley)

I finally bit the bullet and got a subscription to Creative Cloud.

Shake reduction is available on Creative Cloud (CC) 2014, which is periodically updated to 'subscribers'.

It's literally 'saved my bacon' and a few blurry but otherwise very worthy photos that viewers seemed to love (once the filter was applied) and so far no one has commented on 'artifacts' from its use, though that is an issue that there are sliders to control.

Further, nothing can rescue a 'hopeless' photo, but your idea of what is 'hopeless' may change after having that filter available to you.

I'm glad I'm not writing just for myself and that there is at least one worthwhile reader who got something from what I wrote.

My very best wishes.

john

John (Crosley)