Salvage Saturday

[John Holbrook]

Mine is of Bryce Canyon. The original had the foreground way too dark and garish in color, and the sky was far too bright. I worked on this for quite a while but couldn't completely tame the overly bright highlights in the sky. I did, however, get the clouds and the foreground in balance. As Leo Durocher once said, "You win some and you lose some and sometimes you get rained out."

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Doug, nice edit—beautiful place and beautiful image.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Good save Jameel, is that denoise AI or standard denoise

DeNoise AI

 

[dan swiger]

OK, here's a realtime salvage operation.
Went on my weekend bike ride this morn and noted the clouds & a favorite tree.
But the suns flare was a bit much for an iPhone to handle (time to get a IP 13)
I tried a rework but quickly it became a B&W project in Silver Efex

 

[dan swiger]

This is from a trip to arches some years back. It was the last day there and had a tripod malfunction. Had to do most of my shooting handheld and towards the end of the day had to use a high ISO. This was also metered for the sky and so the ground was dark and boosting shadows made the noise pretty bad. Topaz DeNoise to the rescue. The latest Denoise can take the RAW file and do noise reduction. Pretty happy with the result.

Not exactly sure about the arch - likely either the north or south window.

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Nice! Those Topaz tools are the bomb

 

[dan swiger]

Badlands National Park, SD (October 2016) Editing for highlights and editing overall color.

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Some sweet light here & the clouds are contained

 

[Ben Egbert]

OK, here's a realtime salvage operation.
Went on my weekend bike ride this morn and noted the clouds & a favorite tree.
But the suns flare was a bit much for an iPhone to handle (time to get a IP 13)
I tried a rework but quickly it became a B&W project in Silver Efex

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Great save Dan.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Love those clouds Dan and I see why you like that tree.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Follow the leader. From 2019 found and processed during my image clearout. Still 2 years of files to go. Ken

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great fun, love to see those kayakers doing the chute. Nice processing here.