Changing the format of "Salvage Saturday."

[Douglas Sherman]

After looking at the results of participation in this thread last weekend I have decided that it may be better to make this a weeklong process, so people have time to look through their files and also have time to find something interesting to post. So, starting next Saturday everyone will have a week to post their salvaged image. I will be back in Illinois next weekend so I will start the thread now. You can add images through a week from this coming Saturday.

Here is mine for this task. I took this image 25 years ago.

 

[Trent Watts]

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.

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.

 

[AlanLichty]

After looking at the results of participation in this thread last weekend I have decided that it may be better to make this a weeklong process, so people have time to look through their files and also have time to find something interesting to post. So, starting next Saturday everyone will have a week to post their salvaged image. I will be back in Illinois next weekend so I will start the thread now. You can add images through a week from this coming Saturday.

Here is mine for this task. I took this image 25 years ago.

Nice work with this one. A scan from film I presume?

 

[AlanLichty]

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.

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.

Impressive recovery Trent. Starting from medium format helps a lot of older images like this one.

Your starting point looks well preserved for color accuracy at the top. Do you recall what film you were using at the time? I am currently working a scan from 1975 using Agfachrome with some difficult color shifts.

 

[Trent Watts]

Hi Alan.. I don't know if I can find the slide. It was likely Kodachrome as I'm not sure Agfachrome was available in NZ then.

 

[AlanLichty]

Hi Alan.. I don't know if I can find the slide. It was likely Kodachrome as I'm not sure Agfachrome was available in NZ then.

Consider yourself lucky I switched to Kodachrome right after that summer with Agfachrome and never looked back. Kodachrome from my 1976 field season still show good color fidelity.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

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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That is excellent work, Trent.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice work with this one. A scan from film I presume?

Yes, it is, Alan

 

[JimFox]

After looking at the results of participation in this thread last weekend I have decided that it may be better to make this a weeklong process, so people have time to look through their files and also have time to find something interesting to post. So, starting next Saturday everyone will have a week to post their salvaged image. I will be back in Illinois next weekend so I will start the thread now. You can add images through a week from this coming Saturday.

Here is mine for this task. I took this image 25 years ago.

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Wow Doug! This doesn't look like you took it 25 years ago.

And great idea to make this a week long thread.

 

[JimFox]

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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Trent this is perfect! It's totally what Salvage Saturday is all about.

And what a great job you did on salvaging this old slide.


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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[AlanLichty]

My salvage job for today is not quite as old as Trent's but only by one year. This is from the summer of 1975 when I was attending an archaeological field school down in Canyonlands. On a day off from excavations I got a chance to help record some rock art sites that had been reported down in the Maze. From the Maze Overlook you are standing on a relatively flat mesa edge but once you start descending down the trail a look behind you reveals a very distinctive cliff face below the edge of the mesa top. Sadly I tried an experiment that summer after some bad experiences with E6 slide processing and bought several rolls of Agfachrome film. The film came with a mailer for prepaid processing by Agfa so you knew who was processing your work. As it turned out the film itself wasn't so great and there have been some serious color shifts on a large percentage of the slides.

Here is the original as scanned:

And my salvage effort to see what I could do with it:

 

[Trent Watts]

Looks like your processing really improved the slide Alan. I really like the result.

 

[Trent Watts]

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

With adjustments.

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

Original RAW.

With adjustments.

 

[Kyle Jones]

I've posted an image from this evening before, but this is a slightly different composition a little later during the sunset. Processed with a linear profile.

 

[TimMc]

raw image

processed image

 

[John Holbrook]

Foothills Parkway, TN (October 28, 2010) Nikon D700
I re-edited in DxO PureRaw 3. Also used "Dehaze" in mountains and sky and adjusted color using "Point Color" in Camera Raw.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

My salvage job for today is not quite as old as Trent's but only by one year. This is from the summer of 1975 when I was attending an archaeological field school down in Canyonlands. On a day off from excavations I got a chance to help record some rock art sites that had been reported down in the Maze. From the Maze Overlook you are standing on a relatively flat mesa edge but once you start descending down the trail a look behind you reveals a very distinctive cliff face below the edge of the mesa top. Sadly I tried an experiment that summer after some bad experiences with E6 slide processing and bought several rolls of Agfachrome film. The film came with a mailer for prepaid processing by Agfa so you knew who was processing your work. As it turned out the film itself wasn't so great and there have been some serious color shifts on a large percentage of the slides.

Here is the original as scanned:

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And my salvage effort to see what I could do with it:

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My salvage job for today is not quite as old as Trent's but only by one year. This is from the summer of 1975 when I was attending an archaeological field school down in Canyonlands. On a day off from excavations I got a chance to help record some rock art sites that had been reported down in the Maze. From the Maze Overlook you are standing on a relatively flat mesa edge but once you start descending down the trail a look behind you reveals a very distinctive cliff face below the edge of the mesa top. Sadly I tried an experiment that summer after some bad experiences with E6 slide processing and bought several rolls of Agfachrome film. The film came with a mailer for prepaid processing by Agfa so you knew who was processing your work. As it turned out the film itself wasn't so great and there have been some serious color shifts on a large percentage of the slides.

Here is the original as scanned:

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And my salvage effort to see what I could do with it:

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Great transition, Alan. That looks like you could have taken it yesterday.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Foothills Parkway, TN (October 28, 2010) Nikon D700
I re-edited in DxO PureRaw 3. Also used "Dehaze" in mountains and sky and adjusted color using "Point Color" in Camera Raw.

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That is beautiful, John. Excellent job.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

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processed image

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What a great job, Tim, especially with the sky.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I've posted an image from this evening before, but this is a slightly different composition a little later during the sunset. Processed with a linear profile.

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That is a spectacular image, Kyle. Wonderful color and composition.