Questions tagged [blur]
An important aspect of the photographic vocabulary, produced by focus selection, limitations of depth of field, optical qualities, subject motion, camera motion, or other technical problems.
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How can I maximize the "blurry background, sharp subject" (bokeh) effect?
I know that this effect occurs when there's a shallow depth of field.
My question is, what are the various ways I can increase this effect in my photos when I'm taking them?
Note that I'm not ...
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Can you tell from a blurry photo if focus was too close or too far?
If you focus on a focal plane that is sufficiently in front of your subject, or past it (relative to depth of field), the subject will appear blurry. Is there some way of telling purely from the ...
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How can I take shallow depth of field photos with a point-and-shoot camera?
I have a compact digital camera, and in macro mode I can manage to achieve a blurred background, if the background is far enough away. Can this be done when taking non-macro pictures, and if not, is ...
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What's the difference between Bokeh and Gaussian Blur?
I have heard multiple times in photography, the words Bokeh, and Gaussian Blur. To me, it seems that the words are used almost interchangeably, but in some instances, I have heard them contrasted. ...
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Why isn't this portrait taken at f/29 sharp?
I am confused as to why this picture is not sharp. This is a portrait shot at F/29 ISO100 1/250
with a 17-85mm lens focused at 38mm. The subject distance was 1.2M. My DOF app tells me that my DOF ...
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Why would one shoot a fully blurred picture?
Focus and blur have a reason in a picture when they come together. Blur alone is just a loss of an important element in the photography art, unless it has a reason, like obscuring nudity or creating ...
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How can slightly blurred photos be improved in post processing?
I have heard quotes which say "If its not good, delete it."
I go by that advice, but sometimes you capture some precious moment but you see that photo is slightly blurred because of camera shake. I ...
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Orange “aura” around people/objects in photo, usually present with older cameras? [duplicate]
I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask but I’ve been unable to figure out what exactly this is. It’s an effect, seemingly unintentional, that makes people and things have orange blurs around ...
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How does background blur (bokeh) relate to sensor size?
This is a somewhat theoretical question.
Suppose I first take a photo of a subject using a full frame sensor DSLR, with a given lens (say 50mm prime lens at f/3.5).
Now suppose I exchange the camera ...
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Can software auto-detect image focus?
I was wondering if there was any photo management software out there that could auto detect and "rate" images on how in focus they are.
This comes up for me quite commonly when i am looking through a ...
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Why is image stabilisation making images unsharp?
During vacations and travel I tend to use my Nikon D90 and a 18-200 VR (image stabilisation) lens.
I was very annoyed (and had no explanation) when I found images to be unsharp, which had be made in ...
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Should I switch off image stabilization when photographing my 2 year old?
A large percentage of my photos of my 2 year old appear to be blurred. I know one of the problems is that she will not sit still for a second, but I am using a fast shutter speed. Could IS be ...
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How can I undo an intentional Gaussian blur when I don't have the originals?
I have a bunch of old pictures which I had performed a Gaussian blur on to use in a competition years ago and have now realised I do not own the originals anymore. Does anyone know of a tool out there ...
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Where does the ¹/shutter speed = focal length rule for hand shake come from?
The generally accepted rule of thumb is that the shutter speed must be the same or larger than the inverse of the focal length.
As is, it seems that it makes no sense as is:
On a 24 Mpixels full-...
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What equipment and settings do I use for panning shots of moving objects?
How do you go about getting great panning shots of things like cars and bicycles so that the background is nice and blurred but the target is sharp as can be. I have tried on many occasion to do ...
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Why does a larger aperture cause more blur of the background? [duplicate]
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Technically, why is the out of focus area blurred more when using a bigger aperture?
Why is it that a larger lens aperture produces a shorter depth of field, causing the ...
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How can I prevent blurred images when using a tripod?
I'm doing panoramic HDR photography for work using one of those stupid cheap mirror balls mounted on a tripod (not my decision!) and I am noticing on my longer exposures that sometimes I'm getting ...
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How can I repair missed focus in a valuable photo?
The subject in my photo isn't properly focused. I can't take it again because this activity documentation photo can't be redone.
I've tried many solutions such as using shadow/highlight in Photoshop, ...
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How can I take a photo with everything in focus with my DSLR?
I am quite new to DSLRs and one of the first things I noticed was the incredible focus points and appearance of depth that you can achieve. That is great in a lot of scenarios, but not in all. When ...
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How can I fix an out-of-focus blurred photo in Photoshop?
How can I fix this picture? Somebody else took this picture and well he wasn't able to do it very well, and it's blurred.
I have photoshop
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How to have a sharp product image?
I am trying to get my images sharp, but I always notice there are some blurry edges that are further from the lens.
I basically set my ISO to 100 and tried to work my way from there. Since I was ...
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How can I use image stabilization to make a moving subject clear?
Image stabilizers in digital cameras are available for shooting moving/shaking snapshots clearly. The image stabilizers try to focus the moving object and reduce the shaking. However, I have set the ...
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Why do my photos look like they're painted?
I'm not an expert, but all the photos I take look like they've been painted. It doesn't look like normal blur.
I'm using a FinePix S2500HD and the following photo was taken at 1/2000 exposure. I ...
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How to stop a high F number from appearing blurry?
I have been out taking some evening photos (just after sunset) and I have noticed that in a number of instances the higher f numbers ( 14+ ) are appearing more blurred than the lower f numbers ( < ...
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How can I "focus peak" a photograph?
Does an application exist where I can input an image and then the application indicates what parts of the image are in focus? I imagine it as a sort of post-process focus peaking.
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Why are my night photographs always blurry?
I was shooting the lighting of the city that is visible at the top of the trees if you shoot landscape.
No matter what I do, the image is blurry. What have i done:
ISO 100
Manual focus towards ...
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What is a likely cause of this glow in my photos?
I have been using a Nikon D5200 with a Tamron 100-400 zoom for wildlife photography. It's admittedly a budget setup (in some sense of the term "budget"), so I don't expect amazing results. I'm also ...
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Is the bokeh in this picture naturally occurring, or added in post-processing?
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I feel like the blur is not natural. Looks like it was Gaussian Blurred with the couple as the center. What do you guys think?
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Why do moving objects in photos appear blurry?
When taking a photo on most cameras, if you take a picture of a moving object, the object appears blurry. Why does this happen exactly?
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Is it possible to re-focus (recover) an intentionally blurred image?
I have an image which I have modified through Picasa ( using Soft Focus - essentially I am making the faces blurred ).
Question is : If I upload that photo to Facebook, and a user downloads it from ...
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How can I reproduce a myopic effect on a picture?
I want to accurately reproduce a myopic effect on a picture or a scene.
I will explain... I'm a guy with very high myopia (20° to round). I want to show people how I see without my contact lenses.
I ...
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Does a larger sensor resolution increase the difficulty of shooting hand-held?
I'm thinking of upgrading to a D800 and I think I read something about the 36MP resolution of the sensor to be a liability when hand-holding the camera at lower shutter speeds. Unfortunately I cannot ...
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How to avoid a halo around the edges?
I am just post-processing some pictures I took last spring. On lots of them, I notice a halo around the edges of objects which are slightly outside the focused depth.
I shot without a tripod, with ...
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Real-time vs post-production blurs — what's the difference?
I've always been a huge fan of blurry photos, I guess in part because almost any camera is able to take blurry photos, though some better than others.
What's the difference between real-time and post-...
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Maximizing bokeh in the foreground?
Another question asks, How can I maximize the “blurry background, sharp subject” (bokeh) effect?
Rather than the background, I am interested in blurring the foreground. What techniques or advice are ...
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Why does my Canon 7D get blurry pictures with a 70-200mm f/2.8 IS (series 1)?
I'm wondering if it's normal for a Canon 7D with its crop sensor to get unsharp pictures with a 70-200mm 2.8? I just bought a used 70-200 and it seems a little bit blurry. Maybe it needs calibration? ...
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Is there a script which will detect camera-shake blur? [closed]
Is there any existing script, either standalone (python, perl, etc.) or bridge/aperture plug-in that will detect blur of the type where you move the camera when taking the picture? I know this can be ...
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Why is my lens only somewhat sharp near the center and very blurry on the edges?
I bought a canon 50-250mm IS lens (for my T1i), maybe two years ago and haven't used it much, but whenever I do, I always regret using it. Pictures are blurry, the depth of field too shallow and so on....
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What are the benefits and costs of an image stabilized, slower lens vs a non-IS faster lens?
I am going thru a trade off decision between a 24-70 f2.8 lens and a 24-105 f4 IS lens from Canon. My dilemma is that the 24-105 focal length better matches my needs, but the f2.8 would occasionally ...
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How can I get sharp images using optical zoom function on a point-and-shoot?
We’ve got a point-and-shoot (Canon A590 IS), and it seems that the zoom function is completely useless because it is always blurry, even in broad daylight. For example, I tried to take a picture of a ...
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How was this blurry background, sharp motorbike effect achieved?
In this photo nominated as Canon Australia Photo of the Week, the background seems to blur while the rider is sharp. Wouldn't this normally be the other way? How was this done?
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How does Photoshop CS6's deblur feature work?
This video shows a sneak peek of a new Photoshop feature for Creative Suite 6, called 'deblur', which is able to take a blurry image and make it sharper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864
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How can I achieve this effect, where the flower is sharp and everything else is blurry?
I was wondering how it is possible to take a picture like this.
Please have a look here for some example pictures. The flower is sharp, and everything else looks like taken with a long shutter.
Is ...
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Would a large aperture lens help against low light subjects being blurry?
I want to get nice shots with ambient light (meaning the natural light in the room of restaurants, living room with x-mas tree lights only...) so I can catch the glow of light on people’s faces as ...
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Which Lensbaby Sweet 35 or Edge 80 effects are harder to reproduce post-processing?
I want some suggestions from Lensbaby users.
I have the plastic optic, double glass and fisheye optic. I use the composer.
The recent new optics: Sweet 35 and Edge 80 seem very intriguing and I ...
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Is there a theory behind 'Blur Detection'?
I am trying to implement a blur detection algorithm for my imaging pipeline.
The blur that I want to detect is both -
Camera Shake: Pictures captured using hand which moves/shakes when shutter speed ...
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Blurred photos of a moving subject under low light conditions
I’m using a bridge camera Fujifilm s7000. I’ve found it difficult to take photos indoors in low light conditions. The exposure looks right but blurred. I’m trying to take photos of our baby, as you ...
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Why are my point and shoot photos coming out unfocused and blurry?
I have an Olympus Stylus Zoom 115 DLX camera (point and shoot) and recently got back a roll of film in which nearly every photo was unfocused and blurry. I am not sure why/how this happened. The first ...
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In an image with camera shake and a point light source, can the shape of the point light source be used to practically reduce the shake significantly?
Often said "you could compute out the camera shake if you knew the blur function"...
One area frequently plagued by shake: Night photography.
One thing frequently found in night photography: Stars ...
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What exactly is the cause for the diffusion of bright objects in these image?
What exactly is the cause for the diffusion of LED chips in the image below? We can see clearly the LED chips in the image. However, between LED chips, the background is not dark but there are some ...
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