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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Want to 'de-haze' in LR5, suggestions please. | |
RustyBug wrote:
Not an LR user, but I find the issue of haze to be a cast that you have over your image. While Dan points out the reduction in blue, this doesn't fully address the impact the haze is having on other colors, so they may still be a little "dirty" with the blue.
Double check the critical WB of your true neutrals (shadow, mid and high) ... correcting by some form of hue adjustment, which will also effect the non-blue's just a tad. Subtle, but that last 5% you are talking about may be found in the remaining cast that is stealing that little bit of your contrast/clarity in the other colors.
Personally, this was for me the most important reason I committed to PS instead of LR (former versions anyway) because of the Color Balance layer ability to address and fine tune shadow/mid/high independently that was in PS, but not LR (not sure @ current versions)....Show more →
When an image is hazy... the image is hazy. :-) It is hard go make a thing look like something other than what it is, or at least to do so perfectly.
Haze has a whole range of effects on photographs:
- lower contrast
- less color saturation
- color shifts, often toward blue to not always quite that simple
- lessening of detail, particularly in low contrast areas
- softening of the light in shadows
There are several ways to deal with the issue of haze:
- Learn to love haze! I think that it often creates a much more interesting image that perfectly crystal clear light and atmosphere. In particular it can increase the sense of depth in some images through atmospheric recession. Shooting into the haze can create especially luminous light effects.
- Wait for different conditions. If you don't like haze, and that's what you have, and you don't want to shoot in it... you might need to come back later. If you can...
- Try to compensate in post by adjusting various parameters that affect the things listed above. You can reduce the appearance of atmospheric haze, but — in my view — you cannot really completely eliminate it, at least not in all cases.
Regarding "flatness" in the image, you might be able to improve this (or at least counteract it) by several means that are not about sharpening. For example, local curves adjustments to increase the dynamic range of certain key areas of the iimage can make things pop a bit more. (You can also do the opposite — soften the areas that are not primary, thus making the primary areas seem more vibrant by contrast.) It can sometimes be possible to do something similar with local saturation adjustments — either by slightly desaturating less central elements and/or by slightly increasing saturation in the primary areas of visual focus. Sometimes vignetting the image just a bit can make the center seem more vibrant.
Good luck.
Dan
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