Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

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

I took this image of the front range of the Wasatch looking across Utah Lake In 2012. There was an over exposed moon at the top so I cropped it out for this rendering.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice result. I like the pastels in the skies just above the mountains. The moon's reflection is still visible but that might be harder to remove.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is a shot from a trip down to the Bisti a number of years ago. I never quite liked how the sky looked that particular morning but the new masking features in LR allowed me to obtain some better results than I got back when I took the shot.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

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

I took this image of the front range of the Wasatch looking across Utah Lake In 2012. There was an over exposed moon at the top so I cropped it out for this rendering.


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A very nice image Ben. Cropping also gives you a pano aspect ratio which works for this scene.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

This is a shot from a trip down to the Bisti a number of years ago. I never quite liked how the sky looked that particular morning but the new masking features in LR allowed me to obtain some better results than I got back when I took the shot.

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Way to coax the detail out of the clouds.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

One thing I realized a little while ago was that I had ignored images that were rendered rather flat by Bridge with default settings. Now what I do is apply a standard recipe to all images before culling and that becomes my starting point for processing. I revisited quite a few such images over the past couple of years and processed them.

Here is one from Capital Reef.

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice result.

I make a serious effort to make a mental recording of what a scene looked like to my eyes when I took the shot. That's what I want to make my image look like to the viewer after I am done processing. While more modern cameras do better than older ones they all still look flat compared to what I saw with my eyes.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a shot from a trip down to the Bisti a number of years ago. I never quite liked how the sky looked that particular morning but the new masking features in LR allowed me to obtain some better results than I got back when I took the shot.

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Great results Alan. I love the new masking options, masking was never my strong suit and the new features are great.

 

[Ben Egbert]

One thing I realized a little while ago was that I had ignored images that were rendered rather flat by Bridge with default settings. Now what I do is apply a standard recipe to all images before culling and that becomes my starting point for processing. I revisited quite a few such images over the past couple of years and processed them.

Here is one from Capital Reef.

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Really nice Jameel. Capital reef has some great rocks and you have rendered the colors prefect here.

 

[John Holbrook]

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO (October 2016) I re-edited for a cooler white balance more fitting for a wintry look––I liked the subtle warm color of the field contrasting with the cool color of the mountain and sky. Also removed an extraneous fallen branch in foreground.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO (October 2016) I re-edited for a cooler white balance more fitting for a wintry look––I liked the subtle warm color of the field contrasting with the cool color of the mountain and sky. Also removed an extraneous fallen branch in foreground.

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You did a really nice job here John.

 

[dan swiger]

From a visit to Acadia in 09. ANOTHER B&W rendition. Detail & contrast seems more appealing, espcially the grasses

 

[Ben Egbert]

From a visit to Acadia in 09. ANOTHER B&W rendition. Detail & contrast seems more appealing, espcially the grassesView attachment 46178

Great conversion, I like the tonal range of this beautiful scene.

 

[John Holbrook]

From a visit to Acadia in 09. ANOTHER B&W rendition. Detail & contrast seems more appealing, espcially the grassesView attachment 46178

Very nice B&W image.

 

[John Holbrook]

One thing I realized a little while ago was that I had ignored images that were rendered rather flat by Bridge with default settings. Now what I do is apply a standard recipe to all images before culling and that becomes my starting point for processing. I revisited quite a few such images over the past couple of years and processed them.

Here is one from Capital Reef.

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Good composition and color.

 

[JimFox]

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

I took this image of the front range of the Wasatch looking across Utah Lake In 2012. There was an over exposed moon at the top so I cropped it out for this rendering.


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Very cool Ben! Nice idea on removing the moon. The reflection didn't bother me, I didn't even notice until I read Alan's comment. I think that would be an easy removal with Content Aware Fill. It's a miracle worker.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very cool Ben! Nice idea on removing the moon. The reflection didn't bother me, I didn't even notice until I read Alan's comment. I think that would be an easy removal with Content Aware Fill. It's a miracle worker.

Thanks Jim, I left it in because I think it's cool. You don't always see the object that is reflected.

 

[Bob Israel]

Here's one from my trip to Iceland in 2018. This was early in the trip and I felt the image was simply washed out. I came back to it recently and processed it further using Luminar AI for some extra lift. Then converted to B&W and liked that as well.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here's one from my trip to Iceland in 2018. This was early in the trip and I felt the image was simply washed out. I came back to it recently and processed it further using Luminar AI for some extra lift. Then converted to B&W and liked that as well.

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Two very different versions if a beautiful image, I normally prefer color, but the B&W has more drama, and I think it's my favorite.

 

[Bob Israel]

Two very different versions if a beautiful image, I normally prefer color, but the B&W has more drama, and I think it's my favorite.

Thanks for the feedback Ben! I felt the same way . . . more drama in the B&W.