Salvage Saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Time to jump in with your old reworked images.

This image is from Mar 2014. I have shown it many times but was always disappointed. I had used a Lee 3 stop nd grad and it was too much, rendering the foreground too bright and with a color cast in the sky. I stopped using ND grads after this trip.

For this image I darkened the foreground to more evenly match the sky.

 

[AlanLichty]

Time to jump in with your old reworked images.

This image is from Mar 2014. I have shown it many times but was always disappointed. I had used a Lee 3 stop nd grad and it was too much, rendering the foreground too bright and with a color cast in the sky. I stopped using ND grads after this trip.

For this image I darkened the foreground to more evenly match the sky.

The end result of your edits looks quite nice.

 

[AlanLichty]

My offering for today is a scan of a velvia slide from my first trip down the Oregon coast in the late 90's. This is Cape Foulweather just north of the town of Newport. Taken from the beach just below the Otter Crest Inn.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thats a lovely bluff with the green. The sky and sea compliment it. What scanner do you use.

 

[AlanLichty]

Thats a lovely bluff with the green. The sky and sea compliment it. What scanner do you use.

Thanks Ben - I actually just use my 5D MkIV on a homemade copy stand:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for the picture of your system, I expect I could also use a tripod, but the lightbox is intriguing, how do you get even light and the right color temperature?

 

[Jim Dockery]

That is a beautiful image Ben, well worth reviving. It looks a bit tilted down to the left to my eye. I too used to use GND filters and leave them behind now - more trouble than they are worth with the dynamic range of modern cameras and the ease of blending/HDR with the latest software.

 

[AlanLichty]

Thanks for the picture of your system, I expect I could also use a tripod, but the lightbox is intriguing, how do you get even light and the right color temperature?

The box under the slide is a light box I used to use for slide sorting. It is made by a company named Logan and is still being manufactured.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I use a Logan mat cutter so I know the brand

 

[Amy Nelson]

Taken in the early 80's for a HS photography class I was taking at the time.

 

[John Holbrook]

Middle Prong Little River, Tremont, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN Nikon D300, October 2009 Started over with original NEF file and edited water highlights and rock shadows.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Taken in the early 80's for a HS photography class I was taking at the time.

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Lovely image, the scan is really nice too.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Middle Prong Little River, Tremont, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN Nikon D300, October 2009 Started over with original NEF file and edited water highlights and rock shadows.

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This came out really nice John, the colors and shadows are all perfect.

 

[JimFox]

Time to jump in with your old reworked images.

This image is from Mar 2014. I have shown it many times but was always disappointed. I had used a Lee 3 stop nd grad and it was too much, rendering the foreground too bright and with a color cast in the sky. I stopped using ND grads after this trip.

For this image I darkened the foreground to more evenly match the sky.

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Great recovery Ben!

Yeah, 3 stop would be way too much! I was a 1 or 2 stop ND grad guy back in the day.

I will tell you this Ben.... you should print this. Your recovery really makes this look perfect to me.

 

[Ken Rennie]

While looking through my NAS drive to cull the rubbish I discovered this previously unprocessed image taken in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. So not really a salvage but a rescue from deletion. My wife is my usual free model. Ken

 

[Jameel Hyder]

From my first trip to the Antelope canyon taken with the original 5D - it had its challenges with DR.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Middle Prong Little River, Tremont, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN Nikon D300, October 2009 Started over with original NEF file and edited water highlights and rock shadows.

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What a beautiful image, my only concern is with the lifted shadows where they are not very dark but contain no information, it shows how cameras have moved on in terms of dynamic range with even quite moderate modern cameras capable of producing detail in deep shadows. Ken

 

[John Holbrook]

Taken in the early 80's for a HS photography class I was taking at the time.

Very nice image—love the muted colors.

 

[John Holbrook]

While looking through my NAS drive to cull the rubbish I discovered this previously unprocessed image taken in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. So not really a salvage but a rescue from deletion. My wife is my usual free model. Ken View attachment 45665

Nice composition Ken—glad you rescued this one!

 

[John Holbrook]

Time to jump in with your old reworked images.

This image is from Mar 2014. I have shown it many times but was always disappointed. I had used a Lee 3 stop nd grad and it was too much, rendering the foreground too bright and with a color cast in the sky. I stopped using ND grads after this trip.

For this image I darkened the foreground to more evenly match the sky.

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Love the colors, your edit is perfect.