Photoshop shake reduction

[Geoffc]

I was out for a walk last night and snapped this Robin. It was too far away and I think I needed more the 1/1000 for handheld at that distance, however I decided to have a little play with it in Photoshop CC. Now this picture will never win any competitions so please don't judge me by it, but I think the change is interesting and with a less rubbish picture the result can be very good. I did use a few Nik filters to improve the colour and contrast but the main change was running it through the Photoshop shake reduction tool.

 

[Jonathan]

Amazing capture of those words as they floated by, too!

 

[DraganDL]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Geoffc]

Amazing capture of those words as they floated by, too!

Yes those WIF (Words In Flight) shots are quite tricky unless you use the correct AF setting. AF-C 9 point is my preference.

 

[BackdoorArts]

Thanks for the memory nudge, Geoff - I'd forgotten they put that feature in!!

 

[Moab Man]

I've used it once or twice with positive results.

 

[Deezey]

It is a great feature to have. I use it on bird shots a bunch. Aids in getting an ID from a shaky far away shot.

It really helps if you have bright light though.

 

[kevy73]

I thought I watched a TED talk about a new version of photoshop having algorithms in it that could remove camera shake.... but up until now I hadn't seen anyone use it and I was beginning to think I had dreamt it

Out of focus can never really be fixed, but camera shake is mappable to a degree because every pixel in the image moves in the same pattern. I was sure they had come up with a way to plot all these movements and remove them leaving the clean image afterwards. Nice to see the results in the real world... that is pretty cool.