Salvage Saturday

JimFox

JimFox

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Ben Egbert said:
Time to post your reworked images.

I have been fishing my stash and found several from a 2013 trip to Monument Valley that were outside my post processing skills at the time. This one had a serious DR issue. DXO and the latest Photoshope and Topaz saved the day.

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That's a very hard image to process shooting into the sun like that, so I know the work involved to get an image of this type to look good.
 
Ken Rennie

Ken Rennie

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From my usual early January photoshoot in the North Of Scotland. This far North (57.5N) the sun doesn't get very high in the sky and this beautiful sea-stack only ever gets the top section illuminated as the cliffs block the sun. Several years ago I taught myself how to fake sunshine so I started to experiment to find out how to remove sunshine. This is the result with everything beneath the top third of the sea-stack is in a shade and the top third in harsh sunshine. Ken
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Kyle Jones

Kyle Jones

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As much as I like the Panasonic S1R, it really doesn't play well with low light, long exposure images. I've processed and shared shots from this scene before, captured with the Sigma 14/1.8 lens and the extra light really helped. I liked this tighter composition at 24mm as well, but couldn't get it to work. I originally tried blending a 20s exposure for the stars with a 155 second exposure for the ground taken right after it. Even though the ground exposure was plenty long, the noise was horrible and obscured all of the detail in the ground layer.

For this attempt I grabbed a twilight image of the ground that was very clean. However, since I had taken other compositions in between, the images were rotated and slightly shifted relative to each other. I did my best to mask them together and then worked to get the exposures and colors to look reasonably consistent. Let me know what you think!

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Douglas Sherman

Douglas Sherman

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Instead of standing at the head of Maroon Lake like the thousand photo tour people who typically gather there, I decided to photograph the Maroon Bells a lot closer. Someone actually walked all of the way from the throngs of workshop participants to tell me I was in their image. I looked at him in amazement and said, do you have Photoshop processing software. He said yes. I said he could remove me in an instant with that clone tool and never know that I was ever there. I added: "I'm not moving."

This is the unusual image I shot that morning in 1998. The contrasts were too great to process this image properly at that time. It is nice I can do this now and actually have an acceptable image.

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Ben Egbert

Ben Egbert

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Ken Rennie said:
From my usual early January photoshoot in the North Of Scotland. This far North (57.5N) the sun doesn't get very high in the sky and this beautiful sea-stack only ever gets the top section illuminated as the cliffs block the sun. Several years ago I taught myself how to fake sunshine so I started to experiment to find out how to remove sunshine. This is the result with everything beneath the top third of the sea-stack is in a shade and the top third in harsh sunshine. Ken
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Really nice job on making the illumination look even and natural. Beautiful image.
 
Ben Egbert

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Kyle Jones said:
As much as I like the Panasonic S1R, it really doesn't play well with low light, long exposure images. I've processed and shared shots from this scene before, captured with the Sigma 14/1.8 lens and the extra light really helped. I liked this tighter composition at 24mm as well, but couldn't get it to work. I originally tried blending a 20s exposure for the stars with a 155 second exposure for the ground taken right after it. Even though the ground exposure was plenty long, the noise was horrible and obscured all of the detail in the ground layer.

For this attempt I grabbed a twilight image of the ground that was very clean. However, since I had taken other compositions in between, the images were rotated and slightly shifted relative to each other. I did my best to mask them together and then worked to get the exposures and colors to look reasonably consistent. Let me know what you think!

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This is really good Kyle. Thats a hard job to match images from twilight and later especially with a slight change of view. That part is lovely, the sky is great, the mountains on the left seem just a tad bright.
 
Ben Egbert

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Douglas Sherman said:
Instead of standing at the head of Maroon Lake like the thousand photo tour people who typically gather there, I decided to photograph the Maroon Bells a lot closer. Someone actually walked all of the way from the throngs of workshop participants to tell me I was in their image. I looked at him in amazement and said, do you have Photoshop processing software. He said yes. I said he could remove me in an instant with that clone tool and never know that I was ever there. I added: "I'm not moving."

This is the unusual image I shot that morning in 1998. The contrasts were too great to process this image properly at that time. It is nice I can do this now and actually have an acceptable image.

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Douglas, I am sure glad you pulled this out of the achieves. Its a gorgeous image.
 
BlackRockArt

BlackRockArt

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Kyle Jones said:
As much as I like the Panasonic S1R, it really doesn't play well with low light, long exposure images. I've processed and shared shots from this scene before, captured with the Sigma 14/1.8 lens and the extra light really helped. I liked this tighter composition at 24mm as well, but couldn't get it to work. I originally tried blending a 20s exposure for the stars with a 155 second exposure for the ground taken right after it. Even though the ground exposure was plenty long, the noise was horrible and obscured all of the detail in the ground layer.

For this attempt I grabbed a twilight image of the ground that was very clean. However, since I had taken other compositions in between, the images were rotated and slightly shifted relative to each other. I did my best to mask them together and then worked to get the exposures and colors to look reasonably consistent. Let me know what you think!

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Kyle, I think it's the sensor, there not much you can do about it. You still did great with this shot.

Oliver
 
BlackRockArt

BlackRockArt

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Douglas Sherman said:
Instead of standing at the head of Maroon Lake like the thousand photo tour people who typically gather there, I decided to photograph the Maroon Bells a lot closer. Someone actually walked all of the way from the throngs of workshop participants to tell me I was in their image. I looked at him in amazement and said, do you have Photoshop processing software. He said yes. I said he could remove me in an instant with that clone tool and never know that I was ever there. I added: "I'm not moving."

This is the unusual image I shot that morning in 1998. The contrasts were too great to process this image properly at that time. It is nice I can do this now and actually have an acceptable image.

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Doug, this is magnificient, LOve it.

Oliver
 
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