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Tuesday, 8 August 2023

Bridge camera new lease of life with Adobe AI image enhancements August 2023

 

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000.2 


Here is a worked example to illustrate how one bridge camera, in this case the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000.2 gets a new lease of life with new Adobe AI post processing capabilities in 2023.

Australian magpies are easy birds to photograph in the sense that they relate well to humans and make themselves at home around our home. In this case the magpie is pulling the stuffing out of a cushion for nesting material.

There is a photographic problem with magpies though. Their feathers are either very bright white or very dense black which can make for difficulties if we want both rendered with convincing detail.

This means keeping the exposure low enough to prevent blowing out the bright white feathers which means dropping the dark tones into underexposed territory.

In the photo shown here the exposure was 1/400 sec at f4 and ISO 3200.

When we lift the dark tones to show some detail we mostly reveal just a ghastly mess of digital noise in the form of dense grain with no apparent detail.

Using standard noise reduction measures in Camera Raw is not very successful at all. We can get rid of some of the noise but that obliterates any detail which might be in those dark tones.

We need a miracle and behold !    Now we have one in the form of Adobe Denoise AI which not only gives us a dramatic reduction in grain but reveals detail not previously apparent.

But wait, there’s more. Framing on the original photo was not ideal because the bird was hopping about and the FZ1000.2 does not have bird/eye detect AF like current cameras.  However Generative Fill in Photoshop allowed me to add elements to the composition above and to the left of the bird for better visual balance.

 

Original Raw file converted to JPG for publication. Super noisy, bad framing


Standard noise reduction measures unsatisfactory


With Adobe Denoise AI and Generative Fill     A huge improvement


 

 

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