more sunsets (Page 2): I don't have Lightroom and have never used anything like de-haze. But I have taken a lot of sunrise shots recently where the sun was white in the center like...

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

cmc65 wrote:

Thx for looking and your suggestions. I will try them all. I took 600 shots that evening and the sun is too bright in all of them. I guess because ....it was!
:roll: I do shoot in RAW and because it was so hazy that day I ran the photos you see through the dehaze in LightroomCC. All new to me.I'm not sure I like it. Changes everything in the photos.

I don't have Lightroom and have never used anything like de-haze. But I have taken a lot of sunrise shots recently where the sun was white in the center like yours + there was a great deal of smoke (from wildfires in the state). Even with raw, there was just no way to get detail from the sun's center. Here are some where I did a lot of "playful" pp :)

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-332162-1.html

cmc65

Linda From Maine wrote:

I don't have Lightroom and have never used anything like de-haze. But I have taken a lot of sunrise shots recently where the sun was white in the center like yours + there was a great deal of smoke (from wildfires in the state). Even with raw, there was just no way to get detail from the sun's center. Here are some where I did a lot of "playful" pp :)

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-332162-1.html

Thx for that link. Of course they are beautifully photographed, they're your pictures after all. :lol: Wonderful.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

cmc65 wrote:

Thx for that link. Of course they are beautifully photographed, they're your pictures after all. :lol: Wonderful.

:)

OriginalCyn Loc: Connecticut

I didn't know LR had a dehaze feature

cmc65

OriginalCyn wrote:

I didn't know LR had a dehaze feature

Only in the subscription CC version from what I understand.

birdpix Loc: South East Pennsylvania

The dynamic range in the typical sunset is too great for your camera sensor to record all the data. The only way to get anything like what you saw is to do a range of exposures making sure you have one with the sun exposed properly and another with the sky exposed properly and then combine them as an HDR or with a layer blend mode in photoshop.

cmc65

birdpix wrote:

The dynamic range in the typical sunset is too great for your camera sensor to record all the data. The only way to get anything like what you saw is to do a range of exposures making sure you have one with the sun exposed properly and another with the sky exposed properly and then combine them as an HDR or with a layer blend mode in photoshop.

Thank you for your suggestions. If I've attached the correct file you will see what I was dealing with that day up on the mountain. HUGE amounts of haze, so I ran these through the haze filter in Lightroom. It did change a great deal of the original shots. Interesting.

This is the original with the haze as shot.

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Alby144 Loc: Northern Nevada

cmc65 wrote:

Thank you for your suggestions. If I've attached the correct file you will see what I was dealing with that day up on the mountain. HUGE amounts of haze, so I ran these through the haze filter in Lightroom. It did change a great deal of the original shots. Interesting.

It would be nice to see the before and after of each shot. For me the sun looks like it would look if you were looking at it under those conditions. It's hard to say what result you were wanting...the third shot is stunning and all are very interesting. Nice job.