I shot this bridge a couple months back. I had thoughts of doing some fancy editing on it. It's old, but still in use, and in its setting, it had a lot of character. We were in a hurry, so I didn't get a chance to take more than this one image. It looked OK on the camera LCD, so we moved on to our intended destination deeper into the Gila National Forest.
When I got around to working on it a week or so later, I was so disappointed to see that the image was very soft.. the result of a tiny bit of camera shake from being in a rush. I set it aside, and set to working on the pictures that I actually took the time to shoot.
Jump ahead a little more than two months, and the Luminar Neo Extension this photo needs is released: SupersharpAI! As the name implies, it uses AI to analyze all the data in the JPEG or Raw file, and figures out where things went wrong, and fixes it! You get options of "Low", "Medium" or "High" sharpness correction. This one was definitely a candidate for "High".
Once I got the resulting sharpened image, I knew I had to reward myself with a total bending of reality. I've shot dozens of images of clouds for just this purpose. In fact, not long before I shot this bridge, at the height of our monsoon season, I shot just the image to use here. And it's easy with Luminar Neo's AI Sky Replacement tool. (While I prefer to use my own skies for this purpose, Luminar has a marketplace full of sky packs, and image presets. It's quite the rabbit hole when you get to searching through it.) So what did I do with this crusty old bridge? Well, wait no further....
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| Hot Springs Rd Bridge. ©Daniel Gauss/Shot On Site |
Can you feel the deluge approaching? Should I have added lightning? Easy to do. I'm ecstatic I was able to save this image.
Have you got motion blurred photos in your libraries? Out of focus images. SupersharpAI is for you, (and don't tell me every image you've ever sharp is in perfect focus!).
How about all the other Luminar Neo extensions that have recently been released? Background Removal AI (which I showed you in the previous post), Upscale AI, and Focus Stacking (which I haven't introduced you to, but I'm going to!).
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