Salvage Saturday

[Douglas Sherman]

Wow Doug! You stumbled across a treasure chest here! What really awesome images! I am glad you found them and worked them up. You might want to print a couple of these!

Thanks so much, Jim. I guess I have learned a lot in forty years of photography, but I have much more to go.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

White Oak Springs, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (April 2009) Nikon D700 Edited the RAW file for WB and darkened the top portion of the image where the stand of trees begin.

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I love the Smokey Mountains in the springtime, John. You have beautiful leading lines and some nice-looking phlox. I can see quite a few bloodroot leaves indicting that this was a nice spot to visit earlier in the spring too.

 

[Rick Nantais]

From 2012 Olympus E410. My previous attempts were long and involved with multiple layers. This is straight out of ACR. I could remove the slight noise but don't feel that it is necessary. This is from a limestone pavement in North Yorkshire. Ken
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If I may, Have you tried it in black and white ?

 

[Ken Rennie]

If I may, Have you tried it in black and white ?

Yes I produced a mono version in 2016 and here it is. I didn't remove the twigs to the left of the tree in the original as it would have taken a little time, with the new colour version it took a couple of seconds. Ken

 

[Ken Rennie]

Another rescue, this one from 1973. My wife's graduation taken with a Zenit B and 55mm f2 Helios lens. I used to push process my films as I liked the grainy look although it doesn't work with portraits of young women. I taped the film to a North facing window and photographed the negative with an Olympus E410 with kit lens and the Helios 55mm attached in reverse on the front, this allowed me to focus much closer but still not 1 to 1. I may find the film and do it again with a macro lens and A7R4 to give me a better file to work with. The AI Denise programs struggle to tell the difference between camera noise and grain on the original neg. Ken

 

[Rick Nantais]

Yes I produced a mono version in 2016 and here it is. I didn't remove the twigs to the left of the tree in the original as it would have taken a little time, with the new colour version it took a couple of seconds. Ken
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I prefer the BW ...

 

[Ben Egbert]

Another rescue, this one from 1973. My wife's graduation taken with a Zenit B and 55mm f2 Helios lens. I used to push process my films as I liked the grainy look although it doesn't work with portraits of young women. I taped the film to a North facing window and photographed the negative with an Olympus E410 with kit lens and the Helios 55mm attached in reverse on the front, this allowed me to focus much closer but still not 1 to 1. I may find the film and do it again with a macro lens and A7R4 to give me a better file to work with. The AI Denise programs struggle to tell the difference between camera noise and grain on the original neg. Ken
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Lovely lady and a lovely portrait