Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to jump in with your re-visited archive images.

Today I will show an image that I had struggled with in the past, but newer software has made easy.

Mt Timpanogoes in fall

 

[Ken Rennie]

From 2012 and a reminder that Olympus lenses, even the kit ones, were excellent. Taken with a E-410 an early 4/3rd sensor camera. I can't work out why I didn't walk out on the foreshore to remove most of the foreground clutter and produce a cleaner image of the water, castle and sky. 2 different crops. Ken

 

[John Holbrook]

Abrams Creek, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

I created a panoramic image from several files and removed some grasses from the stream at the left edge of frame. Other edits for color and shadows as well.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for joining in Ken, and a lovely example. I like them both but the second is preferred.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Abrams Creek, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

I created a panoramic image from a several files and removed some grasses from the stream at the left edge of frame. Other edits for color and shadows as well.

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Great contribution John.

 

[AlanLichty]

I decided to try my luck with shooting from my drone at sunrise and can now say that the camera has some serious issues in low light. There were some curious artifacts in the RAW file including some color shifting along the right hand side of the image that required some localized color corrections using a radial filer. The dark areas in the scene need to stay dark after what I saw when I tried to brighten them up and that was after using Topaz Denoise AI to try to clean the shot up. I might be able to recover more at home but this was the best I could do using my laptop on the road.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Looks pretty good now, maybe some lingering red in the shadows.

 

[John Holbrook]

I decided to try my luck with shooting from my drone at sunrise and can now say that the camera has some serious issues in low light. There were some curious artifacts in the RAW file including some color shifting along the right hand side of the image that required some localized color corrections using a radial filer. The dark areas in the scene need to stay dark after what I saw when I tried to brighten them up and that was after using Topaz Denoise AI to try to clean the shot up. I might be able to recover more at home but this was the best I could do using my laptop on the road.

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I like your image and your edit.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

An image that reprocessed a while ago. This was rather flat and the way I had processed earlier wasn't 'punchy' enough. This is some help with Topaz Adjust.

 

[Ben Egbert]

An image that reprocessed a while ago. This was rather flat and the way I had processed earlier wasn't 'punchy' enough. This is some help with Topaz Adjust.

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Nice and punchy now Jameel and a nice image. I am using Topaz in all my edits.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I decided to try my luck with shooting from my drone at sunrise and can now say that the camera has some serious issues in low light. There were some curious artifacts in the RAW file including some color shifting along the right hand side of the image that required some localized color corrections using a radial filer. The dark areas in the scene need to stay dark after what I saw when I tried to brighten them up and that was after using Topaz Denoise AI to try to clean the shot up. I might be able to recover more at home but this was the best I could do using my laptop on the road.

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Nice image Alan. Leaving the blacks was a good choice.

A 1/2" Quad Bayer sensor to pack 48MP will struggle in low light. Does down sampling to 12MP help with noise? Is there an option to switch to 12MP (they do pixel binning)?

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice image Alan. Leaving the blacks was a good choice.

A 1/2" Quad Bayer sensor to pack 48MP will struggle in low light. Does down sampling to 12MP help with noise? Is there an option to switch to 12MP (they do pixel binning)?

Jameel - The 48mp sensor configuration doesn't merely struggle with low light and a wide dynamic range - that was a flat out face plant. Yes I can drop this to the 12MP Quad Bayer configuration and after what I saw on my laptop after this morning's session I should have done that with this kind of light. Lesson learned. The reds in the shadows wasn't the worst of it - the sky in the upper right had an odd greenish cast to it that I had to mitigate as well.

Interestingly when I had the drone facing the opposite direction the images came out fine so the wide dynamic range of the sunlit areas and the dark shadows may have contributed to the issues in the captures. The 12MP Quad Bayer configuration design was originally developed to mitigate the problems that phone sensors encounter in these kinds of conditions.

 

[John Holbrook]

An image that reprocessed a while ago. This was rather flat and the way I had processed earlier wasn't 'punchy' enough. This is some help with Topaz Adjust.

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Beautiful colors!

 

[dan swiger]

My 1st trip to Maine 2009 for my 60th. I had passed over this one as itoverexposed-flat
Did a crop & some recovery in P/S

was cluttered &

 

[Ben Egbert]

Lovely recovery here Dan, I like it.