abc1234
Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
One of the more remarkable tools in LR is the dehaze filter. Adobe promoted it for removing distant haze in landscapes. However, I found it handy for adding punch and bringing out detail.
I was in California recently and shot roses on my last day there. (Canon 80D, Sigma 24-70 and 70-200, tripod.) I bracketed exposures at 2/3 stop and picked the best one in LR. The workflow was to apply a ColorChecker profile, adjust the white balance with a gray card, crop, apply auto-exposure, set shadows to -100, dehaze, adjust exposure (rarely needed), apply local adjusts (also rarely needed) and set the vignette to about -30. Adjusting the exposure sliders could not produce the effect I wanted but a slight positive dehaze did. Here are the before and after dehaze adjustments.
Give this a try on your own photos.
I use dehaze in Affinity, too. I try it on any photo that I feel needs help. Usually it does make a difference. If it doesn't, I just don't apply it and there is nothing lost. Usually, it does help.
Quite an amazing comparison. Thanks Bob!
I have similar results using dehaze in PhotoScape also.
Your 2nd pic is amazingly good.
Looks good! I also find that lowering highlights helps this kind of situation as well.
abc1234
Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
sodapop wrote:
Looks good! I also find that lowering highlights helps this kind of situation as well.
I use LR and might be able to duplicate the effect with all the sliders. The beauty of this is you need only one slider, dehaze.
I agree with you very much. I also usually apply just a hint of positive Dehaze to most of my photos as I find it accomplishes what I could create with several other sliders with a single tool. The examples you posted are really good. jak
abc1234 wrote:
One of the more remarkable tools in LR is the dehaze filter. Adobe promoted it for removing distant haze in landscapes. However, I found it handy for adding punch and bringing out detail.
I was in California recently and shot roses on my last day there. (Canon 80D, Sigma 24-70 and 70-200, tripod.) I bracketed exposures at 2/3 stop and picked the best one in LR. The workflow was to apply a ColorChecker profile, adjust the white balance with a gray card, crop, apply auto-exposure, set shadows to -100, dehaze, adjust exposure (rarely needed), apply local adjusts (also rarely needed) and set the vignette to about -30. Adjusting the exposure sliders could not produce the effect I wanted but a slight positive dehaze did. Here are the before and after dehaze adjustments.
Give this a try on your own photos.
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I used to use this tool only on hazy shots. As you point out, it really helps for shots that don't have any distant haze as well. Thanks.
Erich
abc1234
Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Jak and Erich, thanks. I do not know if Adobe intended for people to use the tool for other than haze, but it is certainly a winner.
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