I've been looking for a decent picture of Koi for my dinning room. I can't seem to find any that are at a reasonable price. I was thinking about blowing up a picture of my koi but the only decent picture I have of them is of poor quality (no Polorizer for the picture).

I like this photo becuase it shows my favorite koi, Midori, Kuhaku(s), Ochiba, & Hariwake.

I was hoping some one can clean up the photo for me so I can have it blown up and framed.

Let me know what you guys think.


Don

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The picture is really beyond salvaging IMO. I guess it depends on what you're happy with.

No amount of editing will sufficiently correct substantial blurring and creating an enlargment from such a small image probably won't yield the best result either.

You may find some differing opinions however.

I had a quick dabble below but I think you'd have to spend quite some time to pull anything much out of this image. I don't mean to sound critical BTW

 

No worries,.. I guess I'll stand out there for hours trying to take the right picture with my polorizer on.

I was messing around with the filters, .. since a realistic picture is out of the picture,.. possibly an adjusted/filtered picture can work.

What do you think.

Don

Filtered Picture

 

How much did all the koi cost you?

 

I got most as tosai so a couple thousand.

 

If you want to blow the photo up, you need to take a REALLY high res photo.....as high as you can get, and shoot in RAW format (or TIFF)......DONT use the flash.

 

10 minutes
http://static.flickr.com/116/282691465_cec30bf305_b.jpg

i made it a 6x4 at 300dpi

 

Looks a lot better, but IMHO, not something I would hang in my dining room.

Amazing pchop work though....

 

I gave it a shot as well. Don't know if its an improvement, but was bored.

 

My attempt after 10 min. of photochop.