Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to post your reworked images.

This is from Monument Valley out on the loop. They left the gate open and I was not aware that the loop road was closed at night.

This is not a hard image to process, and I have done so many times. But this time I went for a darker look to emphasis the mystery. I wanted to display the rock details against the misty sky.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice take on the scene - and not the usual lighting at all of course.

 

[AlanLichty]

I decided to do a rework on a scene from Bodie California that was taken through a window at the general store. Lots more detail with current gen software.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I would never know this was through a window. Very clear and great image

 

[AlanLichty]

I would never know this was through a window. Very clear and great image

Thanks Ben - you have to be very careful to block all of the ambient light from getting to the glass in front of your lens. These aren't clean windows by any means.

 

[Kyle Jones]

This is a rework from Lake Louise. The whole image is now somewhat brighter while working to keep the brightest areas under control.

 

[JimFox]

Time to post your reworked images.

This is from Monument Valley out on the loop. They left the gate open and I was not aware that the loop road was closed at night.

This is not a hard image to process, and I have done so many times. But this time I went for a darker look to emphasis the mystery. I wanted to display the rock details against the misty sky.

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I like the darker look Ben. Good job on the rework. The clouds rising up from behind work well to add a sense of mystery.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

An IR Pano from Capitol Reef, reprocessed recently with B&W. Shot with 720nm filter on top of a 520nm conversion.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a rework from Lake Louise. The whole image is now somewhat brighter while working to keep the brightest areas under control.

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Kyle this has your impeccable hand very nice control of shadows lights And contrast for a beautiful scene

 

[Ben Egbert]

An IR Pano from Capitol Reef, reprocessed recently with B&W. Shot with 720nm filter on top of a 520nm conversion.

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Very nice tonal range Jameel. Great composition here

 

[John Holbrook]

Zion National Park, UT (March 2012) Nikon D700 Re-edited RAW file to share on Salvage Saturday, principally because when viewing the Lightroom thumbnails I thought I had inadvertently captured a standing man in a suit in the lower right of the image, Looking in the main window, I realized it was just the shadows of the rock face. Nevertheless I proceeded with the edit for luminosity and color,

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really nice John and thanks for processing just for the post

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ben,

I am a day late, and a dollar short!

This is from 2007. As I was looking through, it's amazing how many bracketed images I captured at Bryce Canyon. I would manually bracket, and typically it would be 3 images. 1 for the ground, 1 for the sky, and 1 inbetween. But as I picked out a couple of sets and then ran them through ACR, it's funny, today with the power of ACR, actually all 3 brackets, could be made to work and look well. It was interesting to see just how far we have come.

This one is a 2 image pano, one to have the ground and a little bit of sky, and the other had mainly sky and a little bit of ground. And I didn't want all of the sky, but I wanted a little more then what was captured in the ground layer.

 

[AlanLichty]

Sweet sunrise - I have been looking back at image sets I took when I was more actively bracketing my shots and finding that LR/ACR can do things I didn't think were possible back in the day. Good example here.

I might start doing more brackets again knowing what can be done now.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Beautiful image Jim and I have the same experience with brackets. By the way which bracket did you use? I am betting the dark.