Salvage Week - 05/06/2024

[Douglas Sherman]

This week I have worked on these three Painted Trillium plants from the Adirondack Mountains of NY. You can see lots of distracting elements on the forest floor. First, I used the Object Selection tool to select the plants and then used inverse selection to choose the background I then used the Field Blur tool to make a nice bokeh. The next step was to darken the background a bit to further emphasize the trillium and finally cropped it a bit to make a better composition.

Original

Reworked image

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow - that makes quite a difference. Nice work isolating the blooms like this.

 

[Peter Michal]

Nicely done, I like this separation of the flowers from the background, Douglas.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Wow - that makes quite a difference. Nice work isolating the blooms like this.

Thanks so much, Alan.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nicely done, I like this separation of the flowers from the background, Douglas.

Thank you very much, Peter.

 

[Ken Rennie]

A reprocessed image from Bavaria. The new making tools in ACR allowed me to process the 3 parts of the image ( sky, tree and baby maize plants separately) This produces a dramatic image that is still believable, previously the tree just looked wrong. Ken

 

[Douglas Sherman]

This is perfect, Ken, in every way. Composition, tones, lines, you nailed it.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

This week I have worked on these three Painted Trillium plants from the Adirondack Mountains of NY. You can see lots of distracting elements on the forest floor. First, I used the Object Selection tool to select the plants and then used inverse selection to choose the background I then used the Field Blur tool to make a nice bokeh. The next step was to darken the background a bit to further emphasize the trillium and finally cropped it a bit to make a better composition.

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Reworked image
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That is a fantastic salvage Doug. Nice rework.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

This is an image from 2016 in a location that Alan will easily recognize. I had bracketed this shot so I took the darkest one through Pure RAW, ACR and PS to see what I can do with it. Here is the result.

SOOC

Processed

 

[Douglas Sherman]

This is an image from 2016 in a location that Alan will easily recognize. I had bracketed this shot so I took the darkest one through Pure RAW, ACR and PS to see what I can do with it. Here is the result.

SOOC
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Processed
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That is outrageously good, Jameel.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is an image from 2016 in a location that Alan will easily recognize. I had bracketed this shot so I took the darkest one through Pure RAW, ACR and PS to see what I can do with it. Here is the result.

SOOC
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A Gorgeous view Jameel

 

[AlanLichty]

My salvage job is a wide light range shot at Zion NP from 2015 with a towering White Throne as a backdrop. Not a shot that had a lot of promise at the time but I squeezed it off anyway.

The original:

A number of edits later using Lightroom, DxO PhotoLab 7 followed by more work in LR and Photoshop:

 

[BlackRockArt]

This week I have worked on these three Painted Trillium plants from the Adirondack Mountains of NY. You can see lots of distracting elements on the forest floor. First, I used the Object Selection tool to select the plants and then used inverse selection to choose the background I then used the Field Blur tool to make a nice bokeh. The next step was to darken the background a bit to further emphasize the trillium and finally cropped it a bit to make a better composition.

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Reworked image
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Doug, the 2nd version looks gorgeous.

Oliver

 

[Jameel Hyder]

My salvage job is a wide light range shot at Zion NP from 2015 with a towering White Throne as a backdrop. Not a shot that had a lot of promise at the time but I squeezed it off anyway.

The original:

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A number of edits later using Lightroom, DxO PhotoLab 7 followed by more work in LR and Photoshop:

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As long as you keep the highlights in check
It’s amazing how much data can be recovered from the shadows these days. It would have turned to mush back in the day.

 

[AlanLichty]

As long as you keep the highlights in check
It’s amazing how much data can be recovered from the shadows these days. It would have turned to mush back in the day.

Makes me glad I have been a pack rat and kept everything