Thursday’s Task

AlanLichty

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I went digging for this round since by definition the task is to find images you never finished processing. Whenever I stop to shoot something it's rare I only take a single image so there were more than a few to choose from.

First up is a scene from Bryce Canyon on a trip right after I retired in the spring of 2015. I took quite a few shots that never made the final cut just because it was next to a shot I liked better.

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This one is from Harris Beach State Park from a visit in 2017. A wonderful sunset that scored a lot of really great scenes that I have posted over the years. This shot got left behind as there were a set of footprints in the foreground and I had lots of shots to pick from with none.

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John Holbrook

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Alan, thank you for taking us on your travel through time to post these two very beautiful images! Very nice indeed. Again thank you for sharing,
 

Jameel Hyder

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Staff member
Another interesting 'task'. I will go a different direction with this one. Here is an image (although not landscape) that I took of the ceiling of the Griffith observatory in LA. This was a family trip and I had only carried a single body with a single zoom lens. The wide end of the zoom wasn't sufficient to capture the ceiling and I left this image to languish till I ran into this week's task. So I decided to see what generative fill can do to salvage this.

Let me know how believable is this.

Original image
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After generative fill
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John Holbrook

Well-Known Member
Another interesting 'task'. I will go a different direction with this one. Here is an image (although not landscape) that I took of the ceiling of the Griffith observatory in LA. This was a family trip and I had only carried a single body with a single zoom lens. The wide end of the zoom wasn't sufficient to capture the ceiling and I left this image to languish till I ran into this week's task. So I decided to see what generative fill can do to salvage this.

Let me know how believable is this.

Original image
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After generative fill
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Amazing outcome—I wouldn’t have thought to have try the generative fill option and thinking “outside the landscape box” too! Thank you for sharing this image Jameel.
 

sweetgrass

Well-Known Member
I've been going through my archives and came upon this image from a hike we did around 2007 in north Phx. It was summer so we hit the trail early, because it gets hot quickly here in the Sonoran.
The lighting was perfect, but I never really liked any of the images I created, until yesterday when I converted it to gray scale and did some basic adjustments with our modern tools. Let me know what you think.

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I just revisited this image, and this is how I remember that morning.

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AlanLichty

Moderator
I've been going through my archives and came upon this image from a hike we did around 2007 in north Phx. It was summer so we hit the trail early, because it gets hot quickly here in the Sonoran.
The lighting was perfect, but I never really liked any of the images I created, until yesterday when I converted it to gray scale and did some basic adjustments with our modern tools. Let me know what you think.

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Phoenix gets hot in the summer? Who knew? 🤣

You got a pretty good result for a backlit shot like this. I would expect almost black for the shadow areas in front and the backside of the saguaros.
 

John Holbrook

Well-Known Member
I've been going through my archives and came upon this image from a hike we did around 2007 in north Phx. It was summer so we hit the trail early, because it gets hot quickly here in the Sonoran.
The lighting was perfect, but I never really liked any of the images I created, until yesterday when I converted it to gray scale and did some basic adjustments with our modern tools. Let me know what you think.

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I just revisited this image, and this is how I remember that morning.

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Sonny, excellent B&W edit of your first image—love the backlit composition with an interesting foreground too! I like the rim light on the cactus in the foreground and the starburst on the saguaro on the horizon in your second image. Thank you for sharing.
 
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