Salvage Week - 03/03/2024

[Douglas Sherman]

Please pile on with your salvaged images.

This image didn't need as much work as some of the previous images. But I thought that the composition was nice, so I tried to make it pop a bit more.

Original image.

Final image. I took out the small Joshua tree along the right side of the main tree and then processed the image.

 

[JimFox]

Very nice!

Before I scrolled to the edit, I thought to myself that the little tree needed to go, but I thought as well that could be hard with it right along the trunk. But you did it and it looks great!

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice edit - I like the color balance work in the edit as well as the vegetation removal.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice edit Doug. The edit really pops.

 

[AlanLichty]

My salvage is an old capture of Mt. Hood as seen from a viewpoint at Larch Mountain from 2003. I have always loved the neat clouds over Hood that particular day and the forests in the foreground. Major parts of the foreground trees have been burned in various wildfires in the years since I shot this including the viewpoint itself. The camera was a 6.1 MP Canon D60 with an older piece of 75-300mm glass from my film days. While I was starting my edits in Photoshop I started to zoom in on parts of the image to work on a mask and discovered that the image was already at 100%. In fact with the view set to fill the window the image shrinks on my 4K screen when I view it at 100%. A wall sized metal print with the salvage job here is probably unwise.

The original:

After considerable digital editing abuse - close to enough to get me reported to The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pixels.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

That really jumps to life, Alan. I like it a lot.

 

[AlanLichty]

That really jumps to life, Alan. I like it a lot.

Thanks Doug - I'd love to replicate this shot with my current camera gear sometime if the stars ever align for skies like this.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

That is a nice edit Alan, I am sure the pixels don't mind

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is one of mine, taking back in 2009 where I had a ID Mark II with whopping 8MP at a $1K/MP rate.

The image was rather flat SOOC. Most of the tweaking in ACR and a bit of work in PS and a crop.

Original

Processed

 

[AlanLichty]

Here is one of mine, taking back in 2009 where I had a ID Mark II with whopping 8MP at a $1K/MP rate.

The image was rather flat SOOC. Most of the tweaking in ACR and a bit of work in PS and a crop.

Original
Processed

Much nicer result with the new processing.

 

[JimFox]

Here is one of mine, taking back in 2009 where I had a ID Mark II with whopping 8MP at a $1K/MP rate.

The image was rather flat SOOC. Most of the tweaking in ACR and a bit of work in PS and a crop.

Original
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Processed
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I really like the edit Jameel. Both the cropping and the processing really breathes some fresh light into this one.

 

[JimFox]

My salvage is an old capture of Mt. Hood as seen from a viewpoint at Larch Mountain from 2003. I have always loved the neat clouds over Hood that particular day and the forests in the foreground. Major parts of the foreground trees have been burned in various wildfires in the years since I shot this including the viewpoint itself. The camera was a 6.1 MP Canon D60 with an older piece of 75-300mm glass from my film days. While I was starting my edits in Photoshop I started to zoom in on parts of the image to work on a mask and discovered that the image was already at 100%. In fact with the view set to fill the window the image shrinks on my 4K screen when I view it at 100%. A wall sized metal print with the salvage job here is probably unwise.

The original:

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After considerable digital editing abuse - close to enough to get me reported to The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pixels.

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Before we report you Alan, how about taking out a little bit of the cyan in the ground layer? The forest and the mountain have a bit of a cyan cast.

If you do that, then I won't have to report you to The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pixels.

 

[AlanLichty]

Before we report you Alan, how about taking out a little bit of the cyan in the ground layer? The forest and the mountain have a bit of a cyan cast.

If you do that, then I won't have to report you to The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pixels.

You wouldn't believe how much I had to take out already BUT - I have removed even more now. I actually created an adjustment layer for the whole frame and killed the cyan saturation entirely in the new edit above. I am still not exactly happy with the tree colors but given the equipment I used for the shot I may just leave it at this. The sensors on digital cameras 21 years ago had some shortcomings compared to what we expect when we push the shutter release these days.

You promise not to report me?

 

[AlanLichty]

Here is one of mine, taking back in 2009 where I had a ID Mark II with whopping 8MP at a $1K/MP rate.

The math on this is almost mind boggling. I am waiting for Canon to release a R5 MkII.....so I can buy a cheaper R5

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here is one of mine, taking back in 2009 where I had a ID Mark II with whopping 8MP at a $1K/MP rate.

The image was rather flat SOOC. Most of the tweaking in ACR and a bit of work in PS and a crop.

Original
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Processed
View attachment 70402

I like what you have done here, Jameel. You have made it come to life.

 

[Ken Rennie]

My salvage is an old capture of Mt. Hood as seen from a viewpoint at Larch Mountain from 2003. I have always loved the neat clouds over Hood that particular day and the forests in the foreground. Major parts of the foreground trees have been burned in various wildfires in the years since I shot this including the viewpoint itself. The camera was a 6.1 MP Canon D60 with an older piece of 75-300mm glass from my film days. While I was starting my edits in Photoshop I started to zoom in on parts of the image to work on a mask and discovered that the image was already at 100%. In fact with the view set to fill the window the image shrinks on my 4K screen when I view it at 100%. A wall sized metal print with the salvage job here is probably unwise.

The original:

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After considerable digital editing abuse - close to enough to get me reported to The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pixels.

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The mountain is terrific Alan but, to my eyes, the sky looks over processed especially from the "line" that runs across the sky 40% down from the top. Although the foreground looks fairly natural it is fighting for attention against the mountain so again my thought is that you should row back in this area too. Ken

 

[Ken Rennie]

Not a landscape but definitely a salvage. Lots of use of the masking in ACR to brighten body parts of the surfer. Taken in a public park in Munich at least 500miles from the sea.

This is just a reprocessing pulling more detail out. Ken