Is there anyway to fix blurry photos?

I took a few great shots IMO but they are blurry. Am I stuck? I have Aperture 3

'Fraid so. Digital imaging is amazing, but it can't create detail that isn't there.

Best you can hope for is to sharpen the hell out of whatever detail is there, and hope it looks ok.

BLAH! That is what I was afraid of. I was struggling taking some birding pictures today in trees. It was to dark for TV mode, and AV mode the shutter speed wasn't fast enough

Yeah, that's pretty common with that type of thing. You have to crank your ISO up as high as you can, concentrate on steady shooting, and do short bursts to try to get a shot without shake. It is challenging in lower light, even if the critter is not moving you typically are a bit.

Do like they do in the movies. Click the "Enhance" button and the image should be crystal clear.

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Make the background even blurrier, doing so will cause your subject sharper relative to the background which in turns, makes the image look a tad bit sharper than original.

Can we assume you were using your 55-250mm lens at the end of its reach? You would have been at f/5.6. Try a faster lens like a 70-200 f/2.8

PhotoCupcake wrote in post #10060797
Do like they do in the movies. Click the "Enhance" button and the image should be crystal clear.

- Yes, I want that software!

It always makes me laugh when they blow-up a dark/underexposed grainy CCTV image to 100x and manage to read fine detail that just 'snaps' into place

OP - As others have already said, no you've had it I'm afraid. You could try sharpening but that is about all you can do.

There is a program called Focus Magic, but all that is doing is applying a lot of sharpening, although it may be quite inteligent.

tonylong wrote in post #10059337
Yeah, that's pretty common with that type of thing. You have to crank your ISO up as high as you can

Yup. People seem scared of using high ISO because of noise. But noise is fixable, blur isn't.

Ahh see I didnt know that hollis. I had always read to keep the iso as low as possible. Dang!

What ISO were you using?

NothingRemains10 wrote in post #10061354
Ahh see I didnt know that hollis. I had always read to keep the iso as low as possible. Dang!

Mainly 100/200.

The other issue I was having was the entire bird, or butterfly, or plant was not in focus, just a part of it. Maybe I was zoomed in to far?

NothingRemains10 wrote in post #10061365
Mainly 100/200.

The other issue I was having was the entire bird, or butterfly, or plant was not in focus, just a part of it. Maybe I was zoomed in to far?

Caused by the same thing that caused the blur - not enough light for the ISO you were using, forcing you to use a wide aperture resulting in a narrow depth of field.

You do want to keep ISO as low as possible - but not at the expensive of using too slow a shutter speed and/or too wide an aperture.

Ah - that's the issue..... way too low.

In that type of lighting with a long lens you should have been at least 800 - which would give you 3 more stops from 100 - and more to play with.

NothingRemains10 wrote in post #10061365
Mainly 100/200.

The other issue I was having was the entire bird, or butterfly, or plant was not in focus, just a part of it. Maybe I was zoomed in to far?

NinetyEight wrote in post #10061326
- Yes, I want that software!

It always makes me laugh when they blow-up a dark/underexposed grainy CCTV image to 100x and manage to read fine detail that just 'snaps' into place

http://208.116.9.205/1​0/content/21256/1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Wyo​OL.jpg