We’d just finished desert at the house of my Sister’s old friend, who now lives in the Mission Valley between Missoula MT and Glacier National Park when we noticed that an amazing show was starting. I ran down to my van, grabbed my gear, and shot from the back deck while others were grabbing loose items that hadn’t already flown out into the yard in the very strong wind. One lesson I learned from this episode was that I ideally would have cranked up my ISO to get a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the image despite the shaking of my camera on its tripod on the moving deck. I got enough improvement from the “shake reduction” filter in Photoshop to make this a very nice screen-sharing image, but was still frustrated with the degree of motion blur remaining. Flash forward over a year, and I learned about Topasz Labs’ Sharpen AI product, which includes a motion-blur-correction mode. So one of the first things I did after shelling out for the product was to reprocess this image using their motion blur sharpening. While it’s still not as good as I believe I could have gotten by simply cranking my ISO and shutter speed up, it did salvage this for nice prints up to at least medium size.
At any rate, it was a rare treat to watch this storm come through!!
Any and all feedback welcome and appreciated.
pping awesome IMO. Glad you were able to clean it up. Terrific capture of a magical moment.>=))>