Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to pile on with your reworked images.

Today I will show one I took at Monument Valley a few years back. You can get a great view from the hotel, but it has a road in it. I drove down the road a bit and found a parking place and then walked out to a location that excluded the road but included the classic view of the Mittens. I was hoping for some cloud color, but the sun was mostly obscured. A hole in the clouds allowed a bit of color to develop on the Mittens.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice starter salvage Ben.

My salvage job for today comes from a visit to Mt. Rainier 11 years ago with hopes of some early fall colors. The colors turned out to be in the sky in the form of thick wildfire smoke from somewhere else that made a mess out of the views around Paradise Inn. This is the before view:

And after - I did crop out the trail amongst other edits:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice starter salvage Ben.

My salvage job for today comes from a visit to Mt. Rainier 11 years ago with hopes of some early fall colors. The colors turned out to be in the sky in the form of thick wildfire smoke from somewhere else that made a mess out of the views around Paradise Inn. This is the before view:

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And after - I did crop out the trail amongst other edits:

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Great salvage Alan. You really changed the look of this with the crop and the clarifying.

 

[John Holbrook]

Time to pile on with your reworked images.

Today I will show one I took at Monument Valley a few years back. You can get a great view from the hotel, but it has a road in it. I drove down the road a bit and found a parking place and then walked out to a location that excluded the road but included the classic view of the Mittens. I was hoping for some cloud color, but the sun was mostly obscured. A hole in the clouds allowed a bit of color to develop on the Mittens.


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Ben, wonderful warm colors in your Mittens image.

 

[John Holbrook]

Nice starter salvage Ben.

My salvage job for today comes from a visit to Mt. Rainier 11 years ago with hopes of some early fall colors. The colors turned out to be in the sky in the form of thick wildfire smoke from somewhere else that made a mess out of the views around Paradise Inn. This is the before view:

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And after - I did crop out the trail amongst other edits:

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Alan, great editing of your image—that’s quite a “before and after” difference!

 

[John Holbrook]

Somewhere in Utah (before I purchased a Solmeta GPS unit) March 2012. Re-edited the RAW file for color and especially luminosity.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

My original image is one I took of an Argentine Cactus in my neighbor's yard from a distance. This one took a bit of work.

Original

Final after processing.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice starter salvage Ben.

My salvage job for today comes from a visit to Mt. Rainier 11 years ago with hopes of some early fall colors. The colors turned out to be in the sky in the form of thick wildfire smoke from somewhere else that made a mess out of the views around Paradise Inn. This is the before view:

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And after - I did crop out the trail amongst other edits:

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Great job, Alan. I really like this one.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Somewhere in Utah (before I purchased a Solmeta GPS unit) March 2012. Re-edited the RAW file for color and especially luminosity.

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Very nice job John clear and sharp and a nice composition.

 

[Ben Egbert]

My original image is one I took of an Argentine Cactus in my neighbor's yard from a distance. This one took a bit of work.

Original

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Final after processing.

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Wow Douglas, that's a real heavy crop and you pulled out such great detail and color.

 

[John Holbrook]

My original image is one I took of an Argentine Cactus in my neighbor's yard from a distance. This one took a bit of work.

Original

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Final after processing.

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Doug, impressive editing—great image!

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Recent rework to get the right color, crop and DoF.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Recent rework to get the right color, crop and DoF.

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Great rework Jameel. This really pops.

 

[dan swiger]

OK, I'm a 1 trick pony. Here's another B&W conversion from 07'
Back side of Mt. Hamilton observatory just before New Year

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very nice conversion Dan. I like the layers.

 

[BlackRockArt]

Time to pile on with your reworked images.

Today I will show one I took at Monument Valley a few years back. You can get a great view from the hotel, but it has a road in it. I drove down the road a bit and found a parking place and then walked out to a location that excluded the road but included the classic view of the Mittens. I was hoping for some cloud color, but the sun was mostly obscured. A hole in the clouds allowed a bit of color to develop on the Mittens.


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Ben, I have never been to the Monument Valley, I am curious if you did any lens profile correction in the post-production.

Oliver

 

[BlackRockArt]

OK, I'm a 1 trick pony. Here's another B&W conversion from 07'
Back side of Mt. Hamilton observatory just before New YearView attachment 47245

Dan, I love the B&W version of the image. A great vantage point of view, the road up to the hill always gets me dizzy.

Oliver

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ben, I have never been to the Monument Valley, I am curious if you did any lens profile correction in the post-production.

Oliver

Hi Oliver, I always use the lens correction in Photoshop. But I don't tweak it from the built in settings. Do you see distortions?