Lightroom Classic Develop module: Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the...

schneiss Loc: Long Island NY

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Possible answers that occur to me. The tour bus window itself could just be dirty. The streaks appear to extend all the way from the top to the bottom of the example photo. Did you try shooting both with and without your polarizer filter? Is your filter linear or circular? The relative merits of both types have been discussed recently on the UHH forum. What brand is it?

schneiss Loc: Long Island NY

The windows were cleaned regularly during the trip. Circular filter. ProMaster.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

schneiss wrote:

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

Yes it probably can depending on how much time you are willing to spend. I would do it in Photoshop only because I know that program better.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

schneiss wrote:

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

Answers:
Yes it is possible but eliminating the dark streaks will take some time. Your mileage may vary.

The streaks have the look of polarization artifacts.

I am sorry but don’t think Lightroom can help.

Sinewsworn Loc: Port Orchard, WA

JD750 wrote:

Answers:
Yes it is possible but eliminating the dark streaks will take some time. Your mileage may vary.

The streaks have the look of polarization artifacts.

I am sorry but don’t think Lightroom can help.

Try dehaze.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

You might want to join the Post Processing Forum. It is a great place for questions like this.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

schneiss wrote:

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

Yes, by finding a tour that lets you get out of the vehicle to take quality shots.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

schneiss wrote:

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

Lightroom no. Photoshop yes, but it will take some time, depending on your knowledge as to how long.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

abc1234 wrote:

You might want to join the Post Processing Forum. It is a great place for questions like this.

Yes the Post Processing Forum is the place for this question. It is a real friendly place with experts of all levels to help you with this.

rond-photography Loc: Connecticut

schneiss wrote:

Shooting from a tour bus is always a challenge. I saw beautiful landscape but wondering if there's a way to eliminate the streaks caused by the polarized bus windows. I may have had a polarizer filter on the lens. Could that be the issue? Can it be cleaned up in Lightroom Classic?

It would be tricky, and not guaranteed to work, but use the adjustment brush and brush over each streak.
Use the "O" key to make the adjusted areas red (so you can see what you have brushed). Once you have brushed each streak, hit the "O" key again to turn off the red and then LIGHTLY adjust the exposure.
Don't go overboard on that adjustment. I find that it looks more natural to make multiple light adjustments to the same spot than to do one heavy adjustment (hit the "New" in the adjustment brush and rebrush the spots you previously adjusted - lightly adjust exposure (or maybe shadows) until you get something you like.

If you didn't have the reflection of the sky in the water, I would suggest just replace the sky. The streaks are not so apparent in the foliage.

It is probably possible to replace the sky in both the sky and water, but that is beyond me and much more work than I would normally do to a photo.

Good luck!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

schneiss wrote:

The windows were cleaned regularly during the trip. Circular filter. ProMaster.

Did the person cleaning them use a squeegee and stroke vertically? Could be faint streaks of window cleaner that your eye/brain filters out but the camera records.

When I use cleaner on my glasses they will often appear perfectly clear but get in different light and there are faint streaks etc from dried cleaner.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Sinewsworn wrote:

Try dehaze.

Sure try it.

Maybe, if asked, Adobe will add a destripe function.

schneiss Loc: Long Island NY

Dehaze didnt help.

schneiss Loc: Long Island NY

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