Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to pile on with your reworked images.

I finally bought the DXO Raw Priime2 program. I did some testing beforehand and saw that it does a cleaner conversion than Photoshop. The converted file has a more accurate lens correction and is sharper. In fact I had to back off on my post processing Topaz actions a bit. But the end result to my eyes is a more natural looking image.

This is a Canon 5dMK3 from 2013

 

[Ken Rennie]

The first image is definitely a salvage job with the dynamic range off the scale. Ken

Not sure that this is a proper salvage.
Untouched original image with the light in exactly the wrong position

A lot of dodge and burn later

 

[Ben Egbert]

The first image is definitely a salvage job with the dynamic range off the scale. KenView attachment 52419


Not sure that this is a proper salvage.
Untouched original image with the light in exactly the wrong position
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A lot of dodge and burn later
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Two great salvage jobs Ken. The first for the obvious DR issues, the second because you made a major mood improvement.

 

[AlanLichty]

I have an elderly shot from Hug Point State Park using a Canon 20D with a Tamron 17-85mm lens that had some rather unworkable blocking in the shadow areas and very flat light. Happily DxO had a camera/lens profile for this which allowed me to open up the shadows quite nicely. PS and TK8 to liven up the sunrise colors.

 

[dan swiger]

Elm tree showing off to Half Dome. in Fall colors
Taken on the 4x5 w/Ektar
Original was a bit underexposed & looked flat, even for an overcast day, especially the sky

 

[Ben Egbert]

I have an elderly shot from Hug Point State Park using a Canon 20D with a Tamron 17-85mm lens that had some rather unworkable blocking in the shadow areas and very flat light. Happily DxO had a camera/lens profile for this which allowed me to open up the shadows quite nicely. PS and TK8 to liven up the sunrise colors.

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Nice salvage Alan, and thanks for putting me onto DXO

 

[Ben Egbert]

Elm tree showing off to Half Dome. in Fall colors
Takein on the 4x5 w/Ektar
Original was a bit underexposed & looked flat, even for an overcast day, especially the sky
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Neat salvage Dan, I love the orange tones in this.

 

[JimFox]

Time to pile on with your reworked images.

I finally bought the DXO Raw Priime2 program. I did some testing beforehand and saw that it does a cleaner conversion than Photoshop. The converted file has a more accurate lens correction and is sharper. In fact I had to back off on my post processing Topaz actions a bit. But the end result to my eyes is a more natural looking image.

This is a Canon 5dMK3 from 2013




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Love that iconic view of the Snake River Ben! I will say I am really liking how those clouds look in this. That's an area with those types of clouds where the edges can blow out so easily. With this processing, they almost look 3D up there.

 

[JimFox]

The first image is definitely a salvage job with the dynamic range off the scale. KenView attachment 52419


Not sure that this is a proper salvage.
Untouched original image with the light in exactly the wrong position
View attachment 52420

A lot of dodge and burn later
View attachment 52421

Wow Ken! Now that's an awesome job of recovery! That's what this thread is all about in my eyes!

 

[Ben Egbert]

Love that iconic view of the Snake River Ben! I will say I am really liking how those clouds look in this. That's an area with those types of clouds where the edges can blow out so easily. With this processing, they almost look 3D up there.

Thanks so much Jim, glad you like it. I am finding lots of old images that benefit from this processing.

 

[JimFox]

The first image is definitely a salvage job with the dynamic range off the scale. KenView attachment 52419


Not sure that this is a proper salvage.
Untouched original image with the light in exactly the wrong position
View attachment 52420

A lot of dodge and burn later
View attachment 52421

And Ken! Congrats on the Daily Featured Image with this Salvage of the waterfall!

@Ken Rennie

 

[JimFox]

Thanks so much Jim, glad you like it. I am finding lots of old images that benefit from this processing.

I have the first version, I might have to upgrade to the newest version and try it out, though I am currently knee deep into my various photography so not sure I have room to squeeze in some new software.

I made the mistake of loading up one of my 5tb drives from 2020 looking for some older Travel Videos' I had skipped over at the time. But while there I found a bunch of Lightning storms I had only processed 1 image from, and a bunch of other timelapses I had taken that need to be turned into timelapses. So I am busy processing and assembling them now. But I don't have much time as I plan a Deep Space outing into Joshua Tree next Wed or Friday, and then I am also getting back on a the road a week from Sunday. 24 hour days are way too short.... I need them expanded to 48 hour days.

 

[John Holbrook]

Tremont, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (October 2008) D300 Re-edited RAW file for lightening shadows and saving the highlights and worked with white balance as well.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice salvage Alan, and thanks for putting me onto DXO

Thank @Ken Rennie - he's the one that first brought it to my attention.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Tremont, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (October 2008) D300 Re-edited RAW file for lightening shadows and saving the highlights and worked with white balance as well.

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Beautiful Image and great salvage

 

[Ben Egbert]

And Ken! Congrats on the Daily Featured Image with this Salvage of the waterfall!

@Ken Rennie

Congratulations Ken, this is an image well worth the award.

And thanks Jim for including this thread when you choose DFA.

 

[JimFox]

Congratulations Ken, this is an image well worth the award.

And thanks Jim for including this thread when you choose DFA.

You are welcome Ben! What's great with the Daily Featured Photo is I am able to pull it from pretty much any guide of thread.

Okay... now for me to quickly look for an image I can Salvage.

 

[John Holbrook]

I have an elderly shot from Hug Point State Park using a Canon 20D with a Tamron 17-85mm lens that had some rather unworkable blocking in the shadow areas and very flat light. Happily DxO had a camera/lens profile for this which allowed me to open up the shadows quite nicely. PS and TK8 to liven up the sunrise colors.

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Alan, love the composition! Very nice image.

 

[JimFox]

I ended up digging back in the year 2005. This is from someplace in Utah, I am thinking in Canyonlands NP somewhere since the rest of the images in that folder are from Canyonlands. It was shot with the 6mp Nikon D70 in jpg mode.

I don't know about you guys, but back in 2005 when I go the D70, my first real digital camera I found myself still in a film shooting frame of mind. Even though it was all digital, and what now seems like endless digital. I recall purposely shooting in jpg rather then in raw a lot, and my reasoning was I didn't want to use up too much space on my memory card. I would have to go dig out an old memory card, but man I think they were only like 64kb? Or something like that?

Anyway, I remember I would shoot in Raw, but only when the image was one where I thought it was a real keeper. It took me a year or two to really realize that I didn't have to worry about file sizes, and that Raw was the only way to go. And even then at first, I recall shooting in Raw and Jpg. Looking back I think I must of felt a little scared about Raw images? Not sure why, but jpgs felt more comfortable. It might have been that I had been scanning my film and it always came back as jpgs? Or perhaps the first Point and Shoot Digital cameras I had while still shooting film, only shot in jpg? But in those early years there was a comfort in shooting in jpg. Perhaps the limited DR of jpgs felt more like I was shooting film still?

So it took a year of shooting before I had convinced myself that shooting Raw was an necessary as breathing.

This isn't an award winning scene, but I liked it in it's simplicity.

 

[AlanLichty]

I ended up digging back in the year 2005. This is from someplace in Utah, I am thinking in Canyonlands NP somewhere since the rest of the images in that folder are from Canyonlands. It was shot with the 6mp Nikon D70 in jpg mode.

I don't know about you guys, but back in 2005 when I go the D70, my first real digital camera I found myself still in a film shooting frame of mind. Even though it was all digital, and what now seems like endless digital. I recall purposely shooting in jpg rather then in raw a lot, and my reasoning was I didn't want to use up too much space on my memory card. I would have to go dig out an old memory card, but man I think they were only like 64kb? Or something like that?

Anyway, I remember I would shoot in Raw, but only when the image was one where I thought it was a real keeper. It took me a year or two to really realize that I didn't have to worry about file sizes, and that Raw was the only way to go. And even then at first, I recall shooting in Raw and Jpg. Looking back I think I must of felt a little scared about Raw images? Not sure why, but jpgs felt more comfortable. It might have been that I had been scanning my film and it always came back as jpgs? Or perhaps the first Point and Shoot Digital cameras I had while still shooting film, only shot in jpg? But in those early years there was a comfort in shooting in jpg. Perhaps the limited DR of jpgs felt more like I was shooting film still?

So it took a year of shooting before I had convinced myself that shooting Raw was an necessary as breathing.

This isn't an award winning scene, but I liked it in it's simplicity.

Simple and it works - I like the dark skies as a backdrop.

Right after I got my Canon D60 back in 2002 I attended a lecture sponsored by Epson with Vincent Versace as the speaker. He gave a demo of using Photoshop to manually blend layers to get better dynamic range out of an image. I got hooked immediately on the notion of using RAW to make different light in my photos with Canon's Digital Photo Professional and then feed them into Photoshop as layers since ACR and Lightroom didn't exist yet. I haven't shot in jpg mode ever since.