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mgodden1989

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Some might have seen this in my BTCC thread in the motorsport section.

Got what I thought was a cracking shot of James Nash on 2 wheels on Saturday. Looked good on the camera screen, got it on the laptop, and not so good.

Basically I got 2 shots, first was way out of focus, but this isn't so bad. This size it looks ok, but in a bigger version it looks out of focus. :bang:

I have Photoshop CS3 and limited knowledge of the whole software. Any hints/tips/suggestions on how, if possible, I might be able to save this image? If I can get it looking spot on then I want to get it printed onto canvas.

Thanks in advance! :D

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As you said it doesn't look bad at this size, without seeing it full size people won't be able to help.

However, if you want it printing on canvas you might get away with it being a little OOF as canvases tend not to show things super sharp anyway.
 
I will get a link to the full size image tonight ... just wondered if there was a general sort of edit I could do to make it look a tad bit better. Not too fussed about the track/grass being spot on but would be nice if the car was.
 
Hi Mark
I had a quick play hope you don't mind.
This was using tips found on this forum, also agree with harvey_nikon, you can get away with stuff on canvas.

Search for High pass filtering and sharpening on here, some excellent tutorials.

Paul

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I would have thought that it's very savable from looking at it.

I would want to clone out the bag and the person at the top of the frame. Either that, or crop to remove them. It looks like the levels need adjusting and a tweak to the contrast and saturation plus a sharpen should turn it into something printable.

I agree that if you're having a canvas print done, you can get away with a little softness.
 
Hi Mark

a very very very very quick edit would be better on the larger file :) Note halo caused by sharpening :lol:

Should be savable

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Thanks for that guys, I will have a look tonight at sharpening it and the contrast/saturation levels etc. Also have some HDR software which I had forgotten about so might stick it through that to see what I can get from it.
 
A little bit of Unsharp mask maybe? :shrug:
 
mgodden1989 said:
I have a RAW and a JPEG of the photo
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Mark,

If you have a RAW version and Photoshop Camera RAW then you may be able to minimise the effects of the "halo" you can see with the high-pass sharpening. I can't remember entirely all the different options you have, but if you can improve the RAW in Camera RAW then you might not need to be so extreme with the JPG.

It's as close as you're likely to get to "getting it right in camera" in this case.
 
Cyclops said:
Hi Mark

a very very very very quick edit would be better on the larger file :) Note halo caused by sharpening :lol:

Should be savable
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At least we dared to try....:lol:

Paul
 
Had a go last night with Dynamic HDR and got the results below. I appreciate the colours are mega bright, so will have another go to tone them down tonight.

A mate of mine also tried, will upload his results.

My attempt:

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so far all of the edits have been well over sharpened.... except the last one. However the saturation is too high on this edit.

As i said in my other post, if its out of focus, its out of focus, editing cant sort that past a slight sharpen.
 
It's fairly easy to fix this image, the only real problem is working from a small jpeg which tends to make the image look over sharpened. Working from a full res pic you shouldn't have any problems at all.
 
Duplicate the layer, add a high pass filter of about 5, then blend the layer with soft light.
See what that looks like.
 
Hi Mark I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve here as I thought it was just about sharpening, but If you are trying to improve the photo’s general appearance than I suggest rather than hdr try a contrast mask and maybe adjust the exposure/gamma a little. A contrast mask will help bring out the details smoother than hdr and although I have not made any sharpening to the edit below you could add a little unsharp masking. It should look better on a full res picture, never really works that well with dowloads off the web.

I think I would also crop the picture a touch and clone out the photographer(?) top right

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