Who needs the latest and greatest camera gear when you have Topaz Photo AI?
One of my favorite photographs is of Canadian geese flying low over the calm water of White Rock, B.C., Canada. I shot it jetlagged, awake at 5 am as the sun rose. The trouble is I had been taking snapshots of sunrise and had set the sensitivity to a hefty ISO 1000. Combine this with the less-than-stellar sharpness of the 18-200mm lens, and it is an image I love but that I have never felt was up to scratch hanging on my wall.
Five minutes in Topaz AI changed that. The slight motion blur has been reduced. Sharpness has been increased with an intelligence above the traditional sharpness settings that other photo editors I have used in the past provide. I have finally been able to get the image I had wanted when I frantically picked up the D300 as I spotted the geese flying in.Noise reduction is where most photographers will benefit from Topaz AI.
My image of the Canadian geese also benefited from noise reduction – image noise has been removed, yet in the background, it has kept the small choppy waves that could have easily been confused for image noise. Of course, Adobe is quickly getting on board with AI and intelligent image editing features such as noise reduction, and it will be interesting to see how it integrates and improves over the next few years.When I'm traveling, I'm a point-and-shoot merchant.
This happened on a trip to Vancouver. The odd arrangement of gulls in a shallow pool caught my eye as foreground interest, so I casually composed the shot, focusing on the background leaving the gulls slightly too close to be in focus, and the distant buildings of the city are soft due to haze and the fact that the lens is far from the sharpest.
Up steps Topaz AI again, and with a tweak of some sharpening settings and a slight noise reduction, I have perceived detail there that makes those elements that matter to pop with sharpness. At the same time, the noise reduction has taken some of the ISO 400 noise out of the sky.
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