Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Show us images you have recently retrieved from your archives.

This image is from Cecret Lake up by the Albion Basin in the ski district east of Salt Lake Utah.

 

[AlanLichty]

I decided to go really deep in my archives for this one - this was shot in the desert near the Superstition Mountains in Arizona with a Minolta twin lens reflex in roughly 1964. I have always loved composing with a winding road leading through the scene.

 

[John Holbrook]

Beautiful area and capture Ben—I like the rocks on the left side of the image projecting into water.

 

[John Holbrook]

1964! I’m impressed with your image and the date. Was this shot on slide film? I like the winding road disappearing into the mountains beyond too.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Very nice shot Ben, but it looks slightly tilted to the left.

That is a deep dive Alan! There are a lot of dust bunnies in the sky, esp. visible in the clouds.

 

[AlanLichty]

1964! I’m impressed with your image and the date. Was this shot on slide film? I like the winding road disappearing into the mountains beyond too.

Thanks John - yes this was slide film. I believe the film was Ektachrome.

Very nice shot Ben, but it looks slightly tilted to the left.

That is a deep dive Alan! There are a lot of dust bunnies in the sky, esp. visible in the clouds.

Thanks Jim - I went on a bunny hunt and did some cleanup work. Old slides like this one are hard to get completely clean for scanning.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I decided to go really deep in my archives for this one - this was shot in the desert near the Superstition Mountains in Arizona with a Minolta twin lens reflex in roughly 1964. I have always loved composing with a winding road leading through the scene.

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Nice one Alan, I have thousands of slides. I have had some of them scanned, but not to my satisfaction. I would need to buy a slide scanner to get to them and very few would meet modern standards.

 

[dan swiger]

Taken on old Velvia 100, 4x5 showing color shift.
B&W is a great salvage tool! Silver Efex to the rescue

Baker Beach

 

[AlanLichty]

Taken on old Velvia 100, 4x5 showing color shift.
B&W is a great salvage tool! Silver Efex to the rescue
Baker Beach

Nice Dan - I had not really considered B&W as a salvage tool for color shifted film. I need to think about what else could be salvaged that way

 

[dan swiger]

Nice Dan - I had not really considered B&W as a salvage tool for color shifted film. I need to think about what else could be salvaged that way

Alan, sometimes the image is better suited to B&W, win-win!

 

[John Holbrook]

Thanks John - yes this was slide film. I believe the film was Ektachrome.

I shot Kodachrome 25 and 64 in the late seventies, with a Pentax SLR. Those were the days.

 

[John Holbrook]

Goblin Valley, October 2016. Nikon 800E with 24-70 f2.8G Nikkor lens. Re-edited two files creating a vertical pano then cropping to the version below depicting more of the foreground and less sky.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Taken on old Velvia 100, 4x5 showing color shift.
B&W is a great salvage tool! Silver Efex to the rescueView attachment 44600
Baker Beach

Great job on this old image, B&W works perfectly here.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Goblin Valley, October 2016. Nikon 800E with 24-70 f2.8G Nikkor lens. Re-edited two files creating a vertical pano then cropping to the version below depicting more of the foreground and less sky.

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Very nice stitch, and the exposure range looks very nice. I have never been to Goblin at golden hour.

 

[John Holbrook]

Taken on old Velvia 100, 4x5 showing color shift.
B&W is a great salvage tool! Silver Efex to the rescue.

Looks great in B&W.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Love that Goblin Valley shot John, both sky and ground complement the goblins.

Great idea and result converting that old scan to digital B&W Dan.

 

[AlanLichty]

I shot Kodachrome 25 and 64 in the late seventies, with a Pentax SLR. Those were the days.

My second TLR (Rolleiflex) died in the early 70's and I ended up getting a 35mm Pentax SLR as well. I shot E-6 process film until I had some bad processing and then I used Agfachrome for one summer before switching to Kodachrome in 1976. Given what it takes to bring those old slides up to modern standards I don't miss film in the slightest.

 

[JimFox]

Show us images you have recently retrieved from your archives.

This image is from Cecret Lake up by the Albion Basin in the ski district east of Salt Lake Utah.

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Love it Ben! What an awesome photo to find in your archives.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Jim.

 

[Bob Israel]

Going back a few years, this image was taken in Banff. We were supposed to be photographing the milky way over the mountain but these clouds kept the milky way covered and then the light of dawn appeared.