Sharpening Digitial Pics

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psaila

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Hi. I have some pics taken at a football ground and because I had to zoom (3.2 optical) many of them are blurry. Can you suggest me a program to remove or at least reduce the blare (mostly due to handshake when shooting zoomed)? Here is a link to one of the pictures. Can anyone work on it and tell me what to do if they manage to get it better? Thanx.

http://img373.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1268vk0.jpg
 
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Adobe Photoshop is pretty good at that sort of stuff, there are a lot of functions to learn though.
 
This is sort of like asking if you can remove static from audio or. It's possible, but you can't make it perfect.

Google has a pretty good program called Picassa that might help you out. Again, nothing perfect, but you might be able to tweak things a bit.
 
What has been mentioned already is a good idea, additionally if you want to reduce this problem in the future, you can always shut off the digital zoom so that you don't have to worry about these type of results in the future.
 
DCIScouts said:
you can always shut off the digital zoom so that you don't have to worry about these type of results in the future.
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But they used 3.2x optical :rolleyes: It's very easy to blur photos at full tele because of the increased, eh... "detection" of motion(I can't think of a better term). Also many lenses can't allow as much light in, so the shutter speed is dropped.
 
Well if you have photoshop, there are a few ways to enhance your image. You could always just use the 'unsharp mask' although I do not recommend that way.

What I would do is again if you have photoshop.
-first unlock your layer
-then dulipliate your layer
Now on the top layer select your filter list and chose 'high pass'
-select maybe 12px, then choose 'soft light'
after that flatten your layers 'if' printing.

I would post a screenshot but the file limitations on here are so low I doubt you can see the results.

Again not perfect but much better than what you had.

download the trial & see if you like it!
 
The_Other_One said:
But they used 3.2x optical :rolleyes: It's very easy to blur photos at full tele because of the increased, eh... "detection" of motion(I can't think of a better term). Also many lenses can't allow as much light in, so the shutter speed is dropped.
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This isn't a solution to make the pictures you took better, but advice for the future...

Try increasing the ISO (film speed), maybe to 400 or so...
 
Kornowski said:
Try increasing the ISO (film speed), maybe to 400 or so...
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And just hope it's a bright sunny day outside or you have one pretty darn good camera :rolleyes: You know just how grainy some cameras can become when the ISO level is too high. Pictures are practically unusable from my Panasonic at ISO 400, and poor at ISO 200.
 
The_Other_One said:
And just hope it's a bright sunny day outside or you have one pretty darn good camera :rolleyes: You know just how grainy some cameras can become when the ISO level is too high. Pictures are practically unusable from my Panasonic at ISO 400, and poor at ISO 200.
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lol, Yeah, I know what you mean... my Canon Ixus 800 does ok...

Yeah, they're really grainy when you have it at 800 in the dark...
 
We gave you our ideas as well as future prevention methods :P

ISO(previously known as ASA) just is a setting for how sensitive the camera is to light. The higher the ISO setting, the more light the camera will pick up. More light means faster shutter speeds, which means less of a chance for motion blur. However, with digital cameras, the higher ISO settings cause images to be very grainy. An average digital camera produces fairly poor images at anything above 100.

Read your manual, I'm sure the ISO settings are listed in there, if it's possible. Not all cameras offer this setting.
 
psaila said:
Can anyone help me and not just discuss. What film are you talking about? I have a digital cam with no film.
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Yeah, like the the_other_one said... The ISO (or film speed, not film :P) is how much light the lense lets in... if you whack the ISO right up, there will be more light going into the lense, thus, the shutter being open for less time, thus... You not having to hold the camera still for as long, getting rid of camera shake.

The down side to this is, the fact that the picture can go grainy, You can find a happy medium of about 200 ISO on a nice day... or if it's a really nice day you could even go down to about 80 ISO... :D
 
If you have tried Photoshop and it's still not looking too good, then I'm afraid you just need to practise being still. The pictures are probably beyond the point of having clear and crisp outlines anymore.

Why don't you link to one for us to work on. If we can do it, we can show you how to do it.

:)
 
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