Salvage Thread

[Douglas Sherman]

I am on the road and will not be back until Tuesday. I will start this week’s thread then. You however can start any time begining now

 

[Ken Rennie]

I will start from this side of the pond. Originally the image didn't have any technical flaws but it really didn't have a subject, just a view of lots of mountains with snow. So radical cropping to concentrate on two mountains, the rounded Cul Mor and the more rugged Canisp. I have also reduced the colour temperature to show how cold it was. Ken

 

[JimFox]

Thanks for starting this Doug. Have a safe trip.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I am back home and have a salvage to share. The image below was taken in the1990's on Kodak Ektachrome 64 film. The shadows are blocked up in the trees. The salvaged image isn't great, but it shows what can be done with old images to help them out

Here is the original.

Here is the final image which was cropped and processed in an attempt to bring out the detail and color in the shadows.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I will start from this side of the pond. Originally the image didn't have any technical flaws but it really didn't have a subject, just a view of lots of mountains with snow. So radical cropping to concentrate on two mountains, the rounded Cul Mor and the more rugged Canisp. I have also reduced the colour temperature to show how cold it was. Ken
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Excellent effort, Ken.

 

[AlanLichty]

My salvage job is from a visit to the Hoh Rainforest back in mid winter of 2011. If you ever want to wander around in the Hoh without running into anyone the best bet is to show up right after a good dusting of snow. I pretty much had the place to myself that day.

Lighting is a bot of an issue given the reality of a dark forest and bright snow. Here is the original:

After quite a bit of a lighting tune up in Lightroom for the light and color and some PS tweaks including using generative fill to remove the background building:

 

[Douglas Sherman]

My salvage job is from a visit to the Hoh Rainforest back in mid winter of 2011. If you ever want to wander around in the Hoh without running into anyone the best bet is to show up right after a good dusting of snow. I pretty much had the place to myself that day.

Lighting is a bot of an issue given the reality of a dark forest and bright snow. Here is the original:

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After quite a bit of a lighting tune up in Lightroom for the light and color and some PS tweaks including using generative fill to remove the background building:

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Excellent job, Alan. I would, however, remove the branches on the right side of the image.

 

[AlanLichty]

Excellent job, Alan. I would, however, remove the branches on the right side of the image.

Thanks - Good call on the branches. Branches removed:

 

[JimFox]

Hey Doug,

Here is one of mine from 2007. Alan will recognize this as it's from Rockaway Beach in Oregon.

 

[AlanLichty]

Hey Doug,

Here is one of mine from 2007. Alan will recognize this as it's from Rockaway Beach in Oregon.

I do - I think they call it Twin Rocks Arch.