Photo Restoration - - Blurry picture problems.. NEED HELP!!!!

infoman · #1 07-12-2006, 05:57 PM

hey guys im in a bind right now... one of my photographer took these pictures at a club i threw. when i received the photos the pictures where blurry so i decided to call him up and he informed me that the pictures where blurry because of his shutter. he had some issues with it that night. well what im trying to ask you guys is.. is it possible to fix the blurry image effect if so how. i have attached a photo below as this is one of the photos out of many that are blurry.. i had to resize the picture a since maximum size to uplaod was 2 mb..

infoman · #2 07-12-2006, 06:00 PM

hey guys im in a bind right now... one of my photographer took these pictures at a club i threw. when i received the photos the pictures where blurry so i decided to call him up and he informed me that the pictures where blurry because of his shutter. he had some issues with it that night. well what im trying to ask you guys is.. is it possible to fix the blurry image effect if so how. i have attached a photo below as this is one of the photos out of many that are blurry.. i had to resize the picture a since maximum size to uplaod was 2 mb.. I have tried a progrma called focus magic but didn't really see a big different or noticable..

mistermonday · #3 07-12-2006, 06:22 PM

Infoman, the image has a significant optical blur. I do not think there is anything you can do to reverse the effect.
Regards, Murray

NancyJ · #4 07-13-2006, 12:28 AM

Any 'improvement' to that would merely be a painstaking process of adding information that isnt there.

Gary Richardson · #5 07-13-2006, 01:15 AM

Sorry there's nothing you can do with an image as badly blurred as that. One to chalk down to experience I'm afraid.

infoman · #6 07-13-2006, 09:56 AM

that bites.. that it can't be fixed.. well i had to resize the file as it was like 3400x 2400 pixels.. does that make any difference?

manta1900 · #7 07-13-2006, 10:13 AM

Maby if you send the original.... (no promices!)

PatrickB · #8 07-13-2006, 11:34 AM

My advice: Slap the photographer

infoman · #9 07-13-2006, 12:54 PM

yah i would love to slap the photographer at this point in time.. he took like over 200 pictures and like 20 came out ok... lol... he said it was some kind of shutter problem with his camera that cause that..

Peter S · #10 07-13-2006, 02:06 PM

A Pro with only one camera ????????

manta1900 · #11 07-13-2006, 03:00 PM

He simply forgot manual focus ON!!!! No shutter problem here! LOL

Cameraken · #12 07-13-2006, 03:31 PM

Hi infoman.

I agree with Everyone here. This image is just too badly blurred. I have tried everything to prove them wrong but I can’t.

It was a lot of work to get the attached image and is really not that much of an improvement. A reshoot is the only answer. (and a new photographer. The camera is Not the problem)

Ken.

NancyJ · #13 07-13-2006, 04:06 PM

It doesnt look like a shutter problem to me, it looks like the focussing is just way off, I cant imagine what shutter problems would cause that kind of blurring - theres no trail or shake on the foreground, it just looks like the focal point is wrong. It appears to be on the window/metal strut rather than on the girls. If he was using auto-focus that might explain some of the problem, autofocus is very difficult dark settings. It does seem more like the photographer is at fault, rather than the camera.
As to only taking 1 camera to a shoot. Somewhere like a nightclub, I definately wouldnt want to be lugging around multiple cameras and lenses, nor risk getting all my kit trashed.
When I shoot gigs I take my lightest, cheapest camera unless the venue has specific press passes and photo areas.

Littlecoo · #14 07-13-2006, 06:30 PM

How does the saying go... "An inept craftman will often blame his tools"

barbara · #15 07-14-2006, 03:35 PM

of course, it is possible to refocus the defocused (blurred) photo.
Such computations are realized for scientific, military and criminological purposes.
Algorithms are not simply. They are very time- and memory-absorbing, with high CPU
requirements.
Better results are possible on B&W pictures than on color versions (problem of color shifts,
color spots introduced by noise , "ringing effect" introduced by edges etc).

As example we can see result of one run in Gimp of plugin "Iterative Refocus"
Filters -> Enhance -> Iterative Refocus

the results can be better, if we are able to find/guess a blur radius of blurred feature.
In attached example I used mentioned filter with settings : blur - 5,20 px,
iterations - 100 and smoothness 80.
Result is not miracle but first step in right direction, I think.

Of course, better results are on architecture or documents' photos than on portraits,
and the next question is to implement proper techniques to process to improve refocused pictures.