Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Pile on with your recently reworked images.

Today I am showing an image of the Grand Canyon that I was never happy with. It was either flat, or too gritty or off tone. I am still not completely sure I like this.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Thiis is an image of Sand hill Cranes I took in Door County WI. Light was low so I had to increase the ISO so that the moving birds would be sharp. The resulting image was quite dark, as you can see, so I had to fix the exposure in Lightroom.

Original exposure.

Final image. Note that the birds are not in the same position because I used a sequence image that had the birds farther along.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thiis is an image of Sand hill Cranes I took in Door County WI. Light was low so I had to increase the ISO so that the moving birds would be sharp. The resulting image was quite dark, as you can see, so I had to fix the exposure in Lightroom.

Original exposure.
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Final image. Note that the birds are not in the same position because I used a sequence image that had the birds farther along.

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Wow this is a real exposure increase and results in a great image. Well done.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Thiis is an image of Sand hill Cranes I took in Door County WI. Light was low so I had to increase the ISO so that the moving birds would be sharp. The resulting image was quite dark, as you can see, so I had to fix the exposure in Lightroom.

Original exposure.
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Final image. Note that the birds are not in the same position because I used a sequence image that had the birds farther along.

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Love this salvage, Doug. Makes for a compelling image.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

One from Death Valley, Dante's view. The lighting and visibility was less than ideal and it needed some serious processing.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good done Jameel, you got some serious results.

 

[John Holbrook]

One from Death Valley, Dante's view. The lighting and visibility was less than ideal and it needed some serious processing.

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A beautiful restoration of your file—nice edit!

 

[John Holbrook]

Pile on with your recently reworked images.

Today I am showing an image of the Grand Canyon that I was never happy with. It was either flat, or too gritty or off tone. I am still not completely sure I like this.

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I like the cool tones of the sky and the distant background and the warmer colors in the foreground. Looks good to me.

 

[John Holbrook]

Thiis is an image of Sand hill Cranes I took in Door County WI. Light was low so I had to increase the ISO so that the moving birds would be sharp. The resulting image was quite dark, as you can see, so I had to fix the exposure in Lightroom.

Original exposure.
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Final image. Note that the birds are not in the same position because I used a sequence image that had the birds farther along.

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Doug, I am impressed—great edit and demonstrates what is possible!

 

[John Holbrook]

Foothills Parkway, TN (October 2010)
Re-edit of RAW file for color and luminosity of fog.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Foothills Parkway, TN (October 2010)
Re-edit of RAW file for color and luminosity of fog.

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Great layering here John

 

[dan swiger]

From Toroweap, '14
I had a sunset shot but the sunrise was a bit tougher. I didn't do the "thumb" trick exact enough.
Soo, here is my re-work

 

[Ben Egbert]

Toroweap is a tough location at sunrise. Looks like a good salvage to me

 

[Graeme F]

I took this long exposure of a glacial boulder stranded in a lake in Kerry on a very grey day last summer. I came across it again after thinking about this thread!

I tried turning into black and white before but it didn't work too well so I played around with the saturation this time to leave just a hint of colour and I think it worked better. Any comments of course welcome.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one Graeme, this has the look of a grey day for sure, great clouds.

 

[JimFox]

Pile on with your recently reworked images.

Today I am showing an image of the Grand Canyon that I was never happy with. It was either flat, or too gritty or off tone. I am still not completely sure I like this.

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I like this Ben. It’s a great image with a good view of the canyon and the shapes of the clouds are very engaging. I think this is one that could go many different ways.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I like this Ben. It’s a great image with a good view of the canyon and the shapes of the clouds are very engaging. I think this is one that could go many different ways.

Thanks Jim, if I were into B&W it would probably be appropriate here.