Salvage Saturday

[Douglas Sherman]

This is from 2003. For some reason I never worked on it, while updating the website with some larger files and reviewing for some additional content, came across this one. View attachment 56694

That is outrageous, Sunny. Absolutely beautiful to the point of being ethereal. I hope Gorman is like this this year. I hasn't been that good in years.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Lots of great images here today. Here are a couple of mine.

Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache. It was dark and noisy. I used topaz denoise AI for the noise and lightened it with Lightroom processing and added some vibrance.

Entrance to South Coyote Buttes. I cropped this from a horizontal image, then lightened the yuccas in the foreground and removed extra dead yucca leaves in the lowest foreground.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Garapatta coast, just after I got my 5DmkII
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Nice work, Dan.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Redbuds, Knoxville, TN (March 2009) Nikon D300 Re-edited the RAW file to work with background fog and foreground colors.

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I like this one a lot, John.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Beautiful work Ben and Alan! It does seem like the SW has advanced significantly more than the cameras, but I am not using the latest and greatest.

Here are a couple that I took at the Valle Vidal a few years ago, and did some reprocessing on.

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Very nice, S

One from Glacier a long time ago shot on the original 7D handheld. Had not processed it before due to the noise which cleans up quite nicely with today's software.

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I like this a lot, Jameel.
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[Douglas Sherman]

My salvage job for today was a somewhat lackluster shot from an evening at the Harris Beach marine garden. At the time I shot this I hadn't figured out that this wasn't the best spot to shoot a sunset in that park so the light angle was all wrong. Lots of deep shadows needed some more light and in the end I took some liberties with the overall color to give it a more pleasing palette.

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Edit: As a point of comparison and reenforcement for current generation processing software here is a SOOC copy of the original RAW file:

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That is impressive, Alan. Beautiful work. Color changes are not liberties. Seldom do we get the true color in a RAW file with today's cameras.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Time to pile on with your reprocessed images. Multiple images welcome

This image of the Great White Throne in Zion NP had such dark shadows that pulling anything out back in the day ended up with banding in shadows. DXO and ACR get the job done now without much ado. Makes me wonder if it's the cameras or software that have improved.


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That is a really nice perspective of the Great White Throne. I have missed this even though I have been in this area a lot over the years.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Garapatta coast, just after I got my 5DmkII
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Beautiful work Dan love the backlit waves

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is from 2003. For some reason I never worked on it, while updating the website with some larger files and reviewing for some additional content, came across this one. View attachment 56694

Fantastic image Sunny hard to imagine overlooking such a sweet image