In honor of Ben Egbert, I am resurrecting "Salvage Saturday" today.

[Douglas Sherman]

Ben's "Salvage Saturday" was always a fun endeavor. The goal was to find an image in your archives or something new you might have overlooked that could be transformed into a respectable image with our newer technology. The image below from my most recent trip triggered the thought that this image might work. The hordes of people on the rockpile where every photographer feels the need to take the trite image of Moraine Lake makes it untenable to take an image without dealing with endless cloning endeavors. I still had to clone five people out of this image.

Please take the time to rework an image and contribute to this thread in memory of Ben.

 

[AlanLichty]

Glad you decided to jump in and revive this weekend endeavor - it was always one of my favorites as well. Nice work with this one.

My salvage job is from a hike on one of the trails in Bryce Canyon from 2013. Horrid lighting conditions but happily I knew it at the time and took two exposures to stretch the range of light I could blend to get this result.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks for doing this Doug!

And what a great image you started it off with. I am running up to NW Minnesota in hope for an Aurora tonight. I currently can see Canada to the north across the river, so I may not be able to Salvage any photos today.

 

[BlackRockArt]

Glad you decided to jump in and revive this weekend endeavor - it was always one of my favorites as well. Nice work with this one.

My salvage job is from a hike on one of the trails in Bryce Canyon from 2013. Horrid lighting conditions but happily I knew it at the time and took two exposures to stretch the range of light I could blend to get this result.

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Alan, this is really nice work, these pine trees are very resilent.

Oliver

 

[Kyle Jones]

Thanks for doing this. I tried to keep it going for a while, but I'm just too inconsistent...

Here's one from Horseshoe bend that I had never processed.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Very Nice, Kyle.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Good job, Alan.

 

[John Holbrook]

Yellowstone National Park, October 2012. (Nikon D800, ISO 400). I re-edited for color, tonality, and WB. I always liked this composition for the foreground rock, dead wood lying about it and the colorful row of trees behind.

 

[John Holbrook]

Thanks for doing this. I tried to keep it going for a while, but I'm just too inconsistent...

Here's one from Horseshoe bend that I had never processed.

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Kyle, another beautiful capture, happy you've found and shared this image for us to see.

 

[John Holbrook]

Ben's "Salvage Saturday" was always a fun endeavor. The goal was to find an image in your archives or something new you might have overlooked that could be transformed into a respectable image with our newer technology. The image below from my most recent trip triggered the thought that this image might work. The hordes of people on the rockpile where every photographer feels the need to take the trite image of Moraine Lake makes it untenable to take an image without dealing with endless cloning endeavors. I still had to clone five people out of this image.

Please take the time to rework an image and contribute to this thread in memory of Ben.

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Glad you've shared this serene beauty with us Doug––this reflection is one of the better examples I've seen in its use in a composition. Nice!

 

[John Holbrook]

Glad you decided to jump in and revive this weekend endeavor - it was always one of my favorites as well. Nice work with this one.

My salvage job is from a hike on one of the trails in Bryce Canyon from 2013. Horrid lighting conditions but happily I knew it at the time and took two exposures to stretch the range of light I could blend to get this result.

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Good forethought in your exposures, worked well here is this "salvage"—love the winding trail through the red rock.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Glad you've shared this serene beauty with us Doug––this reflection is one of the better examples I've seen in its use in a composition. Nice!

Thanks for your kind words, John.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Yellowstone National Park, October 2012. (Nikon D800, ISO 400). I re-edited for color, tonality, and WB. I always liked this composition for the foreground rock, dead wood lying about it and the colorful row of trees behind.

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Wonderful job, John.