Linary Loc: UK

I snapped this photo a couple of years ago and from time to time I have tried, unsuccessfully, to put some some atmosphere into the scene.

It is a colour photo, but this is almost what I could see as I looked from the boat down the length of the loch. Missing from the image are the clouds or mist rolling in on the horizon. the blobs in the sky are not sensor dust but rain drops on the lens.

If anyone can enhance the rolling mist and also tell how, wins no prize but will win my thanks.

Anything goes, even bringing up colours if you think it will help.

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Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

If anyone can enhance the rolling mist and also tell how, wins no prize but will win my thanks.
Anything goes, even bringing up colors if you think it will help.[/quote]


You said anything goes so I went after the color and mist. The first one I did was probably too blue so redid to this final picture. Basically I increased exposure, lowered highlights for clouds, increased shadows to see the foliage, increased whites and added saturation. Increased Blue Hue. Using photoshop I added a white layer and added a mask, while on the mask I went to Filters>Render>Clouds click. Then used Gaussian blur to the mask. Then I added another layer and grouped this new layer and my clouds together so I could add another mask to the group. On this mask I added a gradient to allow only the fog over the water and part of the foliage. I thin added a B&W Layer and set opacity to 43%. Painted over the sky reducing the b&w another 20% to let more blue come through.
Let me know if this is anything close to what you were thinking to improve your picture.
Jim

If you wanted to make my picture more ominous you could add another B&W Layer and adjust the opacity to make it more grey.

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fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

My feeling is that the foreground needed to be more tactile. Some recovery in the dark right side but I think its part of the strength of the photo. Some lightening of highlights but wanting to maintain a close approximation of how it was. The objects in the water I thought were distractions to the atmospheric transition. Some structure contrast to the clouds to show the low cloud layer. slight crop at the top. Felt it was an improvement.

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artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Fine shot to work with, emotionally and with a great variety of forms and values.

Well done versions by the prior two PPers.

I worked on bringing out the haze by lightening it and darkening other space of the sky, lightening the horizon a bit, darkening the loch in a gradient, brining up the forest and shadows on the right, taking out the reddish cast in the shoreline shadow, and removing some noise.

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SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

I selectively added contrast with "Levels" and to certain areas with "Dodge" and "Burn" tools. The trees at right were made to stand out a little by increasing Yellow in "Hue/Saturation".

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minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I would never turn down a challenge that involved editing a Scottish loch. So much beauty.

I did some of what the others described, fiddled with some luminosity masks (without having any expertise, just trying to learn), and in the end, since the colors still eluded me, I threw a LUT on it to add some drama.

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R.G. Loc: Scotland

There's a mixture of haze and softness that you don't want, mistiness that you do want and a bright glow on the water that you don't want to lose. The haze and softness need contrast, a bit of clarity and lowering the highlights whereas to enhance the mist rolling in you need to keep the brightness up, which is also true of the bright reflections on the water. These varying demands mean that lots of brushwork is needed. I also threw in a touch of split toning to make up for the lack of colour and to add a bit of colour contrast.
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Linary Loc: UK

I came up with the photo attached, Nik software and lots of fiddling. the reddish tint on the water appeared from nowhere, but I left it because I had managed to enhance the mist on the left hand side. I could not eliminate the hard line between the mist and the water at the end of the loch.

The colour of the water near to the boat was inky black - the boatman explained the depth of water at that point was over 500 feet with no shallows and light rarely reflected the sky at that point. The depth at the horizon is much less, in some places wadeable, and bright skies reflect all kinds of colours (blue, turquoise and aqua).

For your information the greatest depth of Loch Lomond is 620 feet.

Thank you all for sharing your skills and instructions, I will probably spend another couple of years on this image.

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rborud Loc: Minnesota

Linary Your image is very haunting and I did not was to completly lose, so I chose to layer and use sharpion on the upper layer and erase through for some of the original, merged the used a bit of edge preserving smooth. I hope it might be useful to you. Thanks for a bet of fun. RBorud

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DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

This version was put through Aurora HDR then further edited with Photoshop's Camera Raw filter.

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