home brewer wrote:
It has been very hazy sine we got to Northern Italy. Attached are before and after. All I did was adjust Haze in Lightroom classic. As I said in the past I find photo editing difficult on the small screen on the MacBook Pro. I have not attempted to adjust shadows or make that dish and pole disappear. For some reason the adjusted shot is not level on the post but is level on the MacBook screen. Bienno is a very beautiful city
Is this over processed?
This is a very interesting scene and you captured the home/villa very well. There are nice colors and a lot of beautiful textures in the wall structures. The layered background scenery provides a very nice sense of place.
Without saying, the image is tilted and there is a little bit of keystoning, meaning that you had a little tilt to the camera causing lines to converge. But it is very light. You can easily straighten the image using the crop and correct the slight keystoning with the tools found in the Geometry panel of LR. I also use a MacBook to do all my editing, but I havenāt had a problem with the screen being too small. Obviously, you mileage varies.
To answer your original question, āIs this over processed?ā. You will only get opinions because each observer has different preferences and likes/dislikes. So I can only give you my opinion.
In my opinion and based on my own preferences for this image, I think itās over-processed.
Here are the over-processing issues I see with your edit:
1) The sky is significantly oversaturated. In the histogram, you can see that the blue channel is clipped so as you change exposure, you also introduce a hue change.
2) The red channel is clipped in the light areas of the yellow/orange wall colors. Besides being slightly oversaturated, this causes a hue change as you change exposure. Unless one was there to actually see it, they wouldnāt recognize it, since itās not a natural occurrence, like the sky.
3) Overly contrasty, losing details in the shadows. The dehaze slider affects a lot if different characteristics of the image and it should be used sparingly. Increasing blue tones and contrast is just a couple of effects that can be easily overdone with this slider.
4) Another consideration is the layering of the background mountains. The farther objects should be lighter and exhibit less texture and clarity than the near objects. By overly using the dehaze slider, the distant mountains now have more detail and clarity than the nearer mountains. Also using dehaze exclusively, there is a huge halo around the mountain edges and the house on the right; another effect of over-processing.
5). There are a lot of little distracting details, such as the antenna, dish, bright green pot on the railing, clothes hanging behind the front gate, bright house in the hills, etc. I know you said that you didnāt get to this items yet. But I tried using Photoshopās new āAI Removeā tool to remove those distractions. That tool makes it extremely easy to remove elements from an image and leave a natural looking result behind. Beats all the other methods by far.
Hope this helps.
Mike