Salvage Week 11/18/2023 - 11/25/2023

It is time again for a new salvage week. This is a community thread, so anyone can post here. Just choose one of your images from your archives or a recent image that you had to do some extra processing to make it come out the way you wanted it to.

My wife and I went up the University of Utah last week to visit our grandson. They have a fantastic Natural History Museum on campus and, as you might expect, their dinosaur exhibit is world class. They also have some nice minerals on display, but they are behind glass and present problems with reflections. This image of aquamarine below had a number of problems as you can see in the image I took with my iPhone.




Final image

Nice salvage from the display case capture.

The Utah Museum of Natural History was one of my "customers" for computing support when I was working for the Department of Anthropology in the 1980's. They were located in one of the historic buildings in the President's Circle down on lower campus back in those days with all the dinosaur bones that weren't part of the public displays down in the basement area. They are also the primary repository for all of the artifact collections from archaeological fieldwork conducted by the Anthropology department.

AlanLichty said:

Nice salvage from the display case capture.

The Utah Museum of Natural History was one of my "customers" for computing support when I was working for the Department of Anthropology in the 1980's. They were located in one of the historic buildings in the President's Circle down on lower campus back in those days with all the dinosaur bones that weren't part of the public displays down in the basement area. They are also the primary repository for all of the artifact collections from archaeological fieldwork conducted by the Anthropology department.

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I was thinking of you when I was there. Their dinosaur display was fantastic. They had a winding ramp with dinosaurs from the Triassic Period at the bottom to the Cretaceous Period at the top. It was tough to take images of them because they were close together and you could see other dinosaur bones in between the ones of which you were attempting to take an image. They will be in my salvage images in the future.

Here is what I am talking about.

Douglas Sherman said:

I was thinking of you when I was there. Their dinosaur display was fantastic. They had a winding ramp with dinosaurs from the Triassic Period at the bottom to the Cretaceous Period at the top. It was tough to take images of them because they were close together and you could see other dinosaur bones in between the ones of which you were attempting to take an image. They will be in my salvage images in the future.

Here is what I am talking about.

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For each complete skeleton you see in the visitor display dioramas there are hundreds of fossil bones from incomplete specimens in storage. In their old building down on lower campus there was a fiber optic network interconnect box down in the dino fossil storage area right over a t-rex femur that was just about 12 feet long with a hip joint that was almost chest height as it sat horizontal on a low steel wheeled cart on the floor.

Suzie and our horse Fay, picture taken yesterday at the Arizona ranch. I wanted to give it a little western look

I just posted this picture in the Wildlife/Nature forum and thought it would work here to show the full story. I had little time to shoot this Northern Shrike. It was in bright sun with strong shadows. When I got home and processed the shots the bird had a shadow from a branch that could be mistaken for feather colours and showed as a dark halo on the head.



Photoshop to the rescue with the cloning tool to replace the shadow.

Douglas Sherman said:

It is time again for a new salvage week. This is a community thread, so anyone can post here. Just choose one of your images from your archives or a recent image that you had to do some extra processing to make it come out the way you wanted it to.

My wife and I went up the University of Utah last week to visit our grandson. They have a fantastic Natural History Museum on campus and, as you might expect, their dinosaur exhibit is world class. They also have some nice minerals on display, but they are behind glass and present problems with reflections. This image of aquamarine below had a number of problems as you can see in the image I took with my iPhone.

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A good way to treat the distracting background Douglas.

Not entirely certain this one was worth saving but I decided to give it a go anyway. The scene is the Oneonta Gorge in the Columbia River Gorge on a late January visit back in 2010 when there were still trees in this little canyon. Mid winter in the Gorge can be challenging for photogenic scenes unless you are a big fam of tree moss (I am) and the moss doesn't always look as enchanting in the screen as it did when I set up the camera. The original scene in this case was one of those charmless captures with far too many distracting bare branches:



After juicing it up as best I could both for the colors and downplaying the bare branches:



In 2017 the Eagle Creek fire scorched this little canyon all the way down to the rocks. It was one of the hardest hit side canyons in the Gorge from that fire. There should be fair amount of vegetation starting to return at this point but I have not stopped to grab a shot for comparison.

The moss on the trees is really improved for sure.

Rick Nantais said:

Suzie and our horse Fay, picture taken yesterday at the Arizona ranch. I wanted to give it a little western look
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Rick, I like the first version, nice work.

Oliver

Mid morning fog & light

A well after sunset image from Bamburgh on the North East coast of England. This is Alpenglow with the sky illuminated by the fiery sunset behind me. I have darkened the image from previous versions. Ken