P: Focus mask / image sharpness

If there was no ambient... I think someone mentioned implementing a blur estimator as a solution. 

Agreed, but *Fionn Großeseems to indicate the portraits are blurry due to slow shutter speed (1/60sec.). Of course that begs the question of why not shoot at a higher shutter speed? Even my 2004 Canon 300D has a 1/200 sec. flash sync speed, which would reduce blurring due to camera shake. Just a suggestion. ;>)

Unless you are shooting against a high-frequency backdrop and the camera missed subject focus and brings that background into focus. 

If the portraits were all shot using the exact same subject composition, lighting, aperture and ISO speed setting the image with the largest file size should be the sharpest. Use right-click  'Show In Finder or Explorer' to quickly check the file sizes.

Adobe is making so much money from the new subscription model, but seems to be giving so little back to us ... 

I've been with Lightroom from its inception, and have steadily upgraded. With the diminishing returns from each of the later newer versions, I only upgraded to v6 for its promoted speed improvements (silly me ...). I should have learnt by then, but with the speed issues from the past still lurking I was desperate.
And it didn't offer any improvement speed-wise to me.
And I had to start the subscription model to get the DeHaze functionality.

It is issues like this (as well as their slug-like speed in doing anything about the too-many-to-list long-standing poor DAM features) that really make me annoyed, as there is so much they could do to improve things (and now they certainly can't use cost as an excuse!) such as this kind of feature. I'de LOVE it.

I never use Photoshop now (even though it's part of my subscription) and instead use Affinity Photo (and the rest of the family can use it also as part of my license!). If someone comes up with as good a competitor to Lightroom, I'll jump ship ...

Unless, of course, they start giving us what we need in the Desktop version instead of just adding more ands more online/mobile phone stuff. I understand that that's really good for a lot of people, but for heavens sake, Adobe, please don't keep ignoring those of us that still want what we got into Lightroom for in the first place - we're seeing so many new features (like this) available in other software now, and LR just isn't keeping up.

Sometimes I'm taking portraits with a 1/60s of a second. In order to get one sharp photo, I take a whole row of photos. Most of them are a bit blurry, so I just have to find the most sharp photo.

Now my idea:

Would it be possible to analyze all photos by their sharpness and give a value how sharp a photo is?

---> That would be the easiest way finding the most sharp photos of a series.

Very often I do have that "problem" and so I have to scrub through the photos, sometimes even getting into the 1:1 magnification. Especially annoying since Lightroom ist not the quickest software on planet earth.

Pleeeeease bring it 🙂 Would be "future" for the library module!

Greets from southern Germany
Fionn

YES, this is exactly what we need in LR. Great suggestion!

Focus Mask/peaking via microcontrast detect is a great idea like seen in Capture One

I don't think it needs a full recode. That implies that the code is what is slowing down development efforts. It's still an excellent tool. It just has lagged in development especially in the organizational workflow lately due to the focus on mobile tools. the develop module continues to take advantage of the camera raw team's work, and it does amazing job to make near real time changes to large images. However keywording and sorting through images, stacking and grouping and reorganizing clearly isn't a priority as little has changed since lightroom 2 and 3.

This topic is 4 years old (don't all LR feedback comments start this way nowadays?). I agree with people that say LR could benefit hugely by a full recode from the ground up. Make it a priority to create tools that make editing FASTER, but even more importantly Adobe needs to add intelligence to the software to ASSIST us, not just sit there waiting for us to move a slider.