The Orange Cliffs + 1 new image

[AlanLichty]

I dug around a bit in some very old slide scans yesterday for the Thursday's Task cacti topic and spotted a panorama pair I hadn't tried stitching before. The 2 vertical shots were taken hand held at the head of the Orange Cliffs topographic feature in Canyonlands N.P. on a day off from excavations at Cowboy Cave in the summer of 1975 using a Pentax Spotmatic camera. The butte in the distance on the right is Cleopatra's Chair. Scanned from Agfachrome 64 slides using a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 using Silverfast software and saved as a PSD format file about 25 years ago. Lots of color shifting and scratches to clean up a bit but current generation tools did a workable job of making this presentable for the web.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

Awesome Alan! This looks really nice and looks like you took it yesterday not 50 years ago!

One thing, along the horizon, is there a masking line? Unless it's a thick ground layer. But either way, you can use my method for fixing halo's for this as well, just use a large brush size. It will zap that seam away.

(4) Halo Removal in Photoshop | Focal World

 

[AlanLichty]

Awesome Alan! This looks really nice and looks like you took it yesterday not 50 years ago!

One thing, along the horizon, is there a masking line? Unless it's a thick ground layer. But either way, you can use my method for fixing halo's for this as well, just use a large brush size. It will zap that seam away.

(4) Halo Removal in Photoshop | Focal World

Thanks Jim - that really is a ground layer cloud bank. 1975 was an unusual summer in that we had frequent thunderstorms almost all summer long. Grasses and vegetation that should have been brown were green all through late June through August which can be seen in the lower area of the wash. We visited Arches once on a day off in late July with green grass everywhere you looked. The upside is that most of the potholes in the sandstone washes almost always had water in them that we could rinse ourselves off in while hiking back out from a day of excavations in the cave.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice result from these old slides. A wide vista view.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice result from these old slides. A wide vista view.

Thanks Jameel - part of the photo workshop at the start of field school was how to set up panorama views. I never kept notes on which shots and which rolls of film were meant to be stitched someday so I keep stumbling across panorama pairs in old slide scans.

 

[Michael13]

I have never seen that much green in Canyonlands! An infrared image from then would have been epic!

 

[AlanLichty]

I have never seen that much green in Canyonlands! An infrared image from then would have been epic!

Thanks Michael - I'll go you one better on Colorado Plateau greenery that summer. This is a scene from Arches during a side trip on one of our days off in late July. A digital camera would have been worth its weight in gold since it was a summer of living in dirt with field school and dirt does not mix well with film cameras. Every shot I took has scratches from dirt in my camera. I clean this one up from the biggest scratches but it still has smaller ones scattered around.