Changing the format of "Salvage Saturday."

[Douglas Sherman]

Here are a couple of digital images from 2011 when I was on a trip to New Zealand.
The first one I used sky replacement in PS and adjusted colour and saturation in LR.

Original RAW
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With adjustments.
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This one had blown out light coming in on the left so was processed in LR. No sky replacement just gradient change.

Original RAW.
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With adjustments.
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Excellent work on both of these, Trent. The sky replacement in the first one looks natural. The second one really pops with your alterations.

It looks like there is serious soil creep in this area. Those little terraces don't look manmade.

 

[Rick Nantais]

I'm not sure if this is the kind of reworking appropriate for this thread so let me know if not.
The first picture is from a 2x2 slide I took back in 1974 when I was living in New Zealand. I can't remember what camera or lens I used to shoot this Kea bird in the South Island around Aoraki/Mount Cook. Recently I set about preserving many of my old slides for use in a digital world. I set up a light and cage to drop slides in and took a shot with my OM-1 camera. You can see the boarders of the slide in the first picture.
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I used Light Room for initial adjustments, removing dust and cropping and Topaz AI Sharpen but was distracted by the rock in the forground so used Photoshop to clone the rocks in the bottom right corner. All C&C welcome.
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Wow ! A neat difference !

 

[Trent Watts]

Excellent work on both of these, Trent. The sky replacement in the first one looks natural. The second one really pops with your alterations.

It looks like there is serious soil creep in this area. Those little terraces don't look manmade.

Thanks Douglas. There are many sheep in NZ and my understanding is they terrace the hills during grazing.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Thanks Douglas. There are many sheep in NZ and my understanding is they terrace the hills during grazing.

The clay rich soils would produce the terraces by soil creep without the sheep, but the sheep help things along. If I were still doing photography for geology textbooks, I would recommend the first image for inclusion in a chapter on mass wasting. It is the best example I have ever seen.