I photographed these timber wolves at play many years ago with my medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67. The fastest shutter speed on the camera is 1/400, and with fast moving canines this wasn't fast enough to freeze the action. The photograph was soft, and it has bothered me for a long time. I decided to revisit the image and apply Topaz Sharpen AI to it. I followed that with Topaz Gigapixel AI and then Topaz DeNoise, and I have to say, given the disappointing original, the result of all that software made this quite good. Due to the contrasty elements -- dark wolves on snow -- the shadows especially in the black wolf were devoid of detail. I brought the image into Adobe Camera Raw, even though I was dealing with a scan of a transparency and not a RAW file, and I used the shadows slider to open up the black shadows. Much to my surprise, I was able to recover some detail. I shot this on Fujichrome Provia 100 slide film.
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