SeamusMac wrote:
The arrow points to a flower pedal which has some ghosting, or some damn thing. Is it ghosting. At any rate, can it be removed, and fell free to try. I would appreciate it. Seamus
This is a good photograph. However, color-fringing and chromatic aberration aside, I would not sharpen the blurred petal which your arrow points out. In fact, if this were my photograph, I might go so far as to blur the upper petal on the far right edge of the picture. And here is why:
The flower is an excellent subject, radiating contrasting lines of light and shadow from the center of the flower on the right edge of the picture. (See inserted photograph) Line 1 follows the line of shadow in the center of the middle petal, through the bee's head and along the bee's wing. Line 2 follows the shadow up under the high-contrast edge of the petal in front of the bee's face. Line 3 follows the line of sunlight and shadow down through the center of the lower petal.
Assuming for the moment that this picture was cropped across the top to be 4 inches wide but only 5.25 inches tall (puts the flower center near the center of the picture) --- then the highlight in the bee's eye would be in the center (left to right) along the upper rule-of-thirds line. The bee's back, lower leg would follow the left rule-of-thirds vertical line down to the middle of the photograph. The left rule-of-thirds side is, except for the back end of the bee, all blurred background. The right rule-of-thirds side is the flower: top, center, and bottom. The central vertical third of the picture is blurred background on top, the space between the bee and the heart of the flower in the middle, and supporting flower petals on the bottom.
The eye of the viewer is all about seeing those sharply-defined high-contrast edges. In this picture the eye would probably do the following: 1. follow the bee's gaze to the right, catching on the edge of the high-contrast petal in front of the bee, 2. follow those lines of shadow down to the right, into the heart of the flower, 3. Flow to the left, down the line of shadow in the center of the lower petal, 4. Follow the high-contrast edge of that petal up and around toward the middle, 5. Follow the high-contrast edge of the petal above, up and around to the center of the bee, 6. Follow the bee's gaze to . . . repeat.
The value of having that background upper petal blurry (the petal above the high-definition petal in front of the bee) is that it practically forces the eye to stop moving to the upper right. Instead, the eye follows the high-definition petal-edge in front of the bee back down to the center of the flower. If we sharpen the upper-right petals, the eye may follow that high-definition edge right out of the upper-right corner of the picture. And the viewer will move on to the next photograph on the wall.
So, yes, correct Chromatic Aberration and Color Fringing, but don't automatically jump to correct near-focus blurring. There may be a good reason for keeping it blurred.