Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Pile on with your archive images.

Today I am kicking this off with an image from the Patriarchs in Zion NP. The naked sky kept this one off the radar, but I like the formations and decided to give teh sky the dark look. I could have done this as a B&W, but B&W is not my thing,.

 

[John Holbrook]

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, WY (2016) Re-edited file for sky and to lighten shadows in rocks in foreground.

 

[AlanLichty]

'Nuther deep dive for this one - a scanned shot of a bent tree in the bottom of the Maze with the Chocolate Drops above. The slide was in pretty bad shape between harsh light and some nasty color shifts. I decided to forgo trying to fix the colors and took it to B&W to see what I could save.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

This one is circa 2005 taken with a Canon 1D Mark II. I recently reprocessed this. Taken in a local park.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, WY (2016) Re-edited file for sky and to lighten shadows in rocks in foreground.

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Nice work John, I like this view of Yellowstone falls.

 

[Ben Egbert]

'Nuther deep dive for this one - a scanned shot of a bent tree in the bottom of the Maze with the Chocolate Drops above. The slide was in pretty bad shape between harsh light and some nasty color shifts. I decided to forgo trying to fix the colors and took it to B&W to see what I could save.

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Great view of the Chocolate drops. You had to do some hiking to get to this location.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This one is circa 2005 taken with a Canon 1D Mark II. I recently reprocessed this. Taken in a local park.

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Beautiful fall colors here Jameel, I am glad you revisited this.

 

[AlanLichty]

Great view of the Chocolate drops. You had to do some hiking to get to this location.

Not all that far in - this is not far from where the trail drops down to the level of the wash. This was almost 50 years ago and I was in pretty good shape back then.

 

[Amy Nelson]

1979 Boothbay Harbor taken by a 15 year-old Amy

This was really fun and a nice break. I'm currently in the very time consuming process of transferring 35mm slides over to digital images.

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Original with restoration work

 

[Ben Egbert]

1979 Boothbay Harbor taken by a 15 year-old Amy

This was really fun and a nice break. I'm currently in the very time consuming process of transferring 35mm slides over to digital images.

Processed 42 years later
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Original with restoration work
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Wow, I have not had any luck digitizing my slides. This is a good example of a great job. How are you scanning them? Most of my scans which were all done professionally, including Kodak have been very low resolution.

 

[John Holbrook]

1979 Boothbay Harbor taken by a 15 year-old Amy

This was really fun and a nice break. I'm currently in the very time consuming process of transferring 35mm slides over to digital images.

Processed 42 years later
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Original with restoration work
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You waved a “magic edit wand” over your slide—amazing results!

 

[Amy Nelson]

Wow, I have not had any luck digitizing my slides. This is a good example of a great job. How are you scanning them? Most of my scans which were all done professionally, including Kodak have been very low resolution.

Thanks Ben, I'm using a PrimeFilm XA film/slide scanner and SilverFast AI Studio software, between the two they do a pretty darn good job. I can't even tell you how many slides I have to scan, it's going to be an insane winter project or longer. I'm going to sell the unit when I'm done or see if I can offer my services to others.

 

[Amy Nelson]

You waved a “magic edit wand” over your slide—amazing results!

I wish I had such a wand!

 

[dan swiger]

From the early 70's slides (Ektachrome?)

Mt. Popo

Old Faithful

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great job with these old slides.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Ben, I'm using a PrimeFilm XA film/slide scanner and SilverFast AI Studio software, between the two they do a pretty darn good job. I can't even tell you how many slides I have to scan, it's going to be an insane winter project or longer. I'm going to sell the unit when I'm done or see if I can offer my services to others.

Thanks for the info Amy. I have it in my Amazon wish list. I notice that many people don't like Silverfast because it's too complicated. What is your experience here.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Thanks for the info Amy. I have it in my Amazon wish list. I notice that many people don't like Silverfast because it's too complicated. What is your experience here.

Once you've done one or two it's a piece of cake. Make sure Silverfast is included with the scanner, some don't, but B&H it does.

 

[Jim Dockery]

I lived in the house on the left for a few years back in the early 80s in Grafenwoehr Germany while teaching for the Department of Defense Schools. Fuji Provia slide scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 4000, Silver FX conversion to B&W.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really nice processing here Jim, good resurrection.