Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Show us your salvaged images. The images you tossed but later came back and salvaged.

This is from fall 2007. I was hanging out on a forum full of pixel peepers. None of my images were sharp according to this group. In the early days, I was sending lenses back to Canon for adjustment only to find they were in tolerance. Only when micro adjust was introduced did we learn how wide that tolerance was. After that I spent lots of hour's micro adjusting lenses.

This image has a softer look on the mountains, now I realize it is probably atmospheric in nature. The image did benefit from newer software, but is did nothing to add sharpness.

 

[Bob Israel]

I love the little stream as a leading line to the barn. Haven't seen this composition before and it's awesome!

 

[Bob Israel]

From Iceland - 2018. Here's one I almost gave up on. The light on the mountain an the glow of the sea foam around the rock were troublesome to get how I saw it. I came back to this image many times . . .

 

[AlanLichty]

This one might ring a bell for Ben - in the fall of 2018 I met up with Ben, Jim, and Rick in the Grand Teton area. One morning we shot at Schwabacher Landing with some horrid wildfire smoke blanketing the scene.

This is straight out of camera showing the smokey conditions:

After some serious edits in Lightroom (wonderful new masking tools in the newest version BTW) along with Topaz Denoise and other edits in Photoshop:

 

[Ben Egbert]

I love the little stream as a leading line to the barn. Haven't seen this composition before and it's awesome!

That stream is still there, but I have never seen water in it in the fall after this time and I have been there many times..

 

[Ben Egbert]

From Iceland - 2018. Here's one I almost gave up on. The light on the mountain an the glow of the sea foam around the rock were troublesome to get how I saw it. I came back to this image many times . . .

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Great recovery Bob, makes an awesome image.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This one might ring a bell for Ben - in the fall of 2018 I met up with Ben, Jim, and Rick in the Grand Teton area. One morning we shot at Schwabacher Landing with some horrid wildfire smoke blanketing the scene.

This is straight out of camera showing the smokey conditions:

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After some serious edits in Lightroom (wonderful new masking tools in the newest version BTW) along with Topaz Denoise and others edits in Photoshop:

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Fantastic recovery Alan, I do remember that trip, great fun. We need to do another meet up

 

[BlackRockArt]

Show us your salvaged images. The images you tossed but later came back and salvaged.

This is from fall 2007. I was hanging out on a forum full of pixel peepers. None of my images were sharp according to this group. In the early days, I was sending lenses back to Canon for adjustment only to find they were in tolerance. Only when micro adjust was introduced did we learn how wide that tolerance was. After that I spent lots of hour's micro adjusting lenses.

This image has a softer look on the mountains, now I realize it is probably atmospheric in nature. The image did benefit from newer software, but is did nothing to add sharpness.

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Ben, this is a beautiful shot. When I was in Grand Teton, the locals told me don't expect much colors in the Autumn, I totally missed this.

Oliver

 

[John Holbrook]

Nymph Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 2016. I created a "short" pano by adding another shot to the right side of the scene to enhance the width of the image. I also dodged the steam plumes and burned the sky. And of course, edited for tones and color as well.

RAW file

Edited file

 

[Ben Egbert]

Wow John, your edits make a powerful and very good improvement.

 

[JimFox]

Nymph Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 2016. I created a "short" pano by adding another shot to the right side of the scene to enhance the width of the image. I also dodged the steam plumes and burned the sky. And of course, edited for tones and color as well.

RAW file

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Edited file

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This is awesome John!

 

[JimFox]

Show us your salvaged images. The images you tossed but later came back and salvaged.

This is from fall 2007. I was hanging out on a forum full of pixel peepers. None of my images were sharp according to this group. In the early days, I was sending lenses back to Canon for adjustment only to find they were in tolerance. Only when micro adjust was introduced did we learn how wide that tolerance was. After that I spent lots of hour's micro adjusting lenses.

This image has a softer look on the mountains, now I realize it is probably atmospheric in nature. The image did benefit from newer software, but is did nothing to add sharpness.

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Hey Ben,

I never toss any of my images, nor do I look at them and say they aren't good enough to process. My mentality is a bit different in that I shoot a lot, I pick out my favorite to the process and the rest sit in the folder. They aren't there because I had decided they weren't good enough, they are there because I simply decided to process a different image.

So... can I Salvage them as simply Archive photos and not as rejected photos? I have tons of old Archived images I can go back and process to post in this, but I don't have any rejects. (I hope that makes sense?)

 

[Ben Egbert]

Sure, any old image. This is really an archive digging thing.

 

[John Holbrook]

Jim,

Not to speak for Ben, but my interpretation is that “Salvage Saturday” is an opportunity to edit overlooked files, or to re-edit files with a new perspective, software, technique(s), etc.

(Just now saw Ben’s reply to your question).

 

[Jim Dockery]

Very dramatic image changes here and very nice results.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I will reword this next week to make sure that any old image is eligible. I used salvage because it goes with Saturday

 

[rfkiii]

This image is from the very first time I used a camera, a 2 MP C700UZ Olympus, which was about 2001 (I didn't even know to set the clock so that the date would be recorded in the EXIF). This was a trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. About half the images were blurry from hand shake although I didn't know what was causing the blurriness and most of the images had blown skies and highlights. Not sure how far along I've progressed since then but...

OOC

After processing

By the way, these are 100% images. No need for downsizing.

 

[AlanLichty]

This image is from the very first time I used a camera, a 2 MP C700UZ Olympus, which was about 2001 (I didn't even know to set the clock so that the date would be recorded in the EXIF). This was a trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. About half the images were blurry from hand shake although I didn't know what was causing the blurriness and most of the images had blown skies and highlights. Not sure how far along I've progressed since then but...

OOC

After processing

By the way, these are 100% images. No need for downsizing.

Not bad at all considering the camera. I had an Olympus CZ2100UZ back in early 2001 (1600x1200) and am well aware of the shortcomings compared to what we have become spoiled with anymore

 

[Ben Egbert]

Looks like a steep drop off here. Really neat recovery.