Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to pile on with your reworked images. Sorry I am late, just got back from an overnight camping/photo trip.

This image was never hard to process, but the newer tools, not the least in Photoshop just makes it better IMO. Now if PS just had a mules ear action to make this look like Tom Tills image.

 

[AlanLichty]

I have a salvage job from the area around Bend in central Oregon with a peak named Broken Top in the distance. Fall Creek is in the foreground. The light was very flat the day of this visit and the shadow contrasts were quite harsh. All tamed quite a bit with current software.

 

[JimFox]

Ha ha Ben, yeah a Mules Ear action would be cool! We can replace the sky in our photos now, why can't we add flowers into the ground layer?

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really nice rework Alan, and a lovely scene, well worth the effort.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here is a rework from the area around Flagstaff that was very dark. It was near sunset when I took it. I really worked the whites by taking out the blacks with Photoshop by selecting the whites and removing blacks three times at full removal

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great result Douglas, So I assume you did this in ACR a total of three times at 100% white and 100% black. Neat trick. I often take generous amounts but seldom 100%

I went back and reread your method, so you selected whites and removed black from just the whites? I would not know how to do that.

 

[John Holbrook]

"X" White Oak Springs, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (April 2009) Nikon D300, I enhanced in PS with the super resolution feature, and edited for better color and luminosity. (Oops, it‘s Saturday!—running late today).

 

[dan swiger]

"Wind surfing with the birds"
Taken on Provia. Edits to keep the details with incoming fog

 

[John Holbrook]

Time to pile on with your reworked images. Sorry I am late, just got back from an overnight camping/photo trip.

This image was never hard to process, but the newer tools, not the least in Photoshop just makes it better IMO. Now if PS just had a mules ear action to make this look like Tom Tills image.

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Beautiful image Ben!

 

[John Holbrook]

I have a salvage job from the area around Bend in central Oregon with a peak named Broken Top in the distance. Fall Creek is in the foreground. The light was very flat the day of this visit and the shadow contrasts were quite harsh. All tamed quite a bit with current software.

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Great editing of the shadows—very nice image Alan.

 

[John Holbrook]

Here is a rework from the area around Flagstaff that was very dark. It was near sunset when I took it. I really worked the whites by taking out the blacks with Photoshop by selecting the whites and removing blacks three times at full removal

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Doug, beautiful image and well done editing—the autumn colors almost glow (in a good way!)

 

[John Holbrook]

"Wind surfing with the birds"
Taken on Provia. Edits to keep the details with incoming fog
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Dan, nice editing of the details—love this scene and it’s composition.

 

[Ben Egbert]

"X" White Oak Springs, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (April 2009) Nikon D300, I enhanced in PS with the super resolution feature, and edited for better color and luminosity. (Oops, it‘s Saturday!—running late today).

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Very nice editing. Do you find applying super resolution helps at web size or is it for your own personal use like printing.

 

[Ben Egbert]

"Wind surfing with the birds"
Taken on Provia. Edits to keep the details with incoming fog
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Really nice results. I find that good scanning is the most important step with film

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Been out all day. Some really nice salvage images. Mine is from the days or the original 5D. Processed for some color corrections.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Great result Douglas, So I assume you did this in ACR a total of three times at 100% white and 100% black. Neat trick. I often take generous amounts but seldom 100%

I went back and reread your method, so you selected whites and removed black from just the whites? I would not know how to do that.

one way would be in ACR use the mask by selecting the whites (color range) and move the black slider back all the way. Repeat.

 

[John Holbrook]

Very nice editing. Do you find applying super resolution helps at web size or is it for your own personal use like printing.

It doesn't help with web files but now I have that res available for other uses––just experimenting. The D300 has a 12 megapixel sensor, far smaller than today's camera sensors.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Been out all day. Some really nice salvage images. Mine is from the days or the original 5D. Processed for some color corrections.

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Nice rework, a lovely image. Greens can be tricky to get the right shade, and this looks right to me. I also had the 5D.

 

[Ben Egbert]

one way would be in ACR use the mask by selecting the whites (color range) and move the black slider back all the way. Repeat.

Thats what I was thinking and why I took the wrong path at first until I reread his comments.

It doesn't help with web files but now I have that res available for other uses––just experimenting. The D300 has a 12 megapixel sensor, far smaller than today's camera sensors.

Thanks John for clarifying, it's what I thought. I also process primarily for print even though I only print 1% of my images.

 

[JimFox]

Ben, I am glad you came up with this idea as it's been fun for me to go back through my old images and pull up ones I had never processed.

This one is from Badwater in Death Valley. It's a 6 shot pano. It's from back in the day (2007) before I shot totally in Raw, so my only images of this are in jpg.