Lars Bogart Loc: Camano Isl., Wa., U.S.A.

What type of Filter can I use to help remove haze in background ??
Camera is Nikon D 5300 W/ Sigma 18-250 Lens.
See Example photo.

Thank You in advance.

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speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

A COP, or a Haze filter, UV filter, all will help with that, but don't expect any miracles!

ClarkG Loc: Southern Indiana USA

Affinity Photo software can “remove” much of the haze. It works very well.

RichardSM Loc: Back in Texas

Not too much with smoke like that. I would say do this PP!

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

A Circular Polarizer will remove glare and some of the reflection from the haze. It works on a 90 deg angle to the sun, which requires you to position you and your camera appropriately.

Alternatively, as others have suggested, the DeHaze slider in Adobe Lightroom's Develop panel can do wonders as long as you don't overdo it.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

These filters were intend for use with film and not digital. They only serve to protect the lens in digital. Try dehaze in PP.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

That's not exactly a screw-on lens filter!

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Thats pretty much just rubbish, they work in digital just as well as they did for film!

bleirer

Here is a nice article. https://photographylife.com/lens-filters-explained

Digital cameras are hardly sensitive to uv light, so haze and UV filters are not going to have an impact.

Brokenland

Parse to the gods. Someone at UHH has finally admitted what I've been trying to say for nearly 6 months, if not more. back when I purchase my refurbished M6 I wanted to accumulate a few filters for use with my 100mm lens. Months past and I've had to systematically return each one of these filters ranging from UV, CPL, Deffusers and Gradated ND filters. The reason.. None of these filters worked with my camera.

B&W
Hoya
Tiffen
Fotodiox
Polaroid
Lee
and many others no name brands..

No matter how hard I tried, reset the camera, adjust the camera's setting, even allowing for long exposures, made sure I was 90 degrees from the sun etc.. nothing worked. I posted this info on a number of sites Like Fstoppers only to be told nearly the same thing within this thread and others about filters on digital cameras. "It's user error".

So all this time I thought it was me because my arthritic hands couldn't rotate the filter correctly when it was the filter itself simply does not work on digital cameras. The true test of this camera a few months back while picnicing beside a stream.. I took this image without a polarization filter. Although the image has some shimmers. I can still see the bottom of the stream in bright daylight.. so who needs a filter when the camera has all ready take or adjusted the image for processing.

Finally, after hearing others saying what I had suspected and told others in this and other forums only to be met with resistance, has come full circle. No longer will I waste money on something that doesn't work on my camera.

bleirer

Some filters work fine, like polarizers and neutral density.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

As others say, PSE can remove some haze. Be careful as too much removal can make the photo look odd.

Photoguy120

Just because someone “finally “ agreed that it was not user error does not make it true. Circular polarizing filters always unless the loss of f-stops makes it impossible.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

For your shot, a Haze or UV filter would not help much. That is the reason I use post processing soft ware. One solution would be to shoot from the opposite direction, when the sun is behind you haze is kept at a minimum. Also, generally speaking, as you zoom to telephoto, haze maximizes.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Right!

De-haze software -
https://topazlabs.com/category/tutorials/dehaze-adjustment/

Lightroom -
https://petapixel.com/2015/06/24/this-preset-pack-brings-real-dehaze-to-lightroom-6-1/
https://cutthruthefog.wordpress.com/lightroom-6-dehaze/

Photoshop -
Here is a quick trick that can give your photos a little pop. In Photoshop go to Filters>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and set the amount to 20%, set the radius to 50 pixels, and set the threshold to 0. This will not sharpen the photo. It just brightens it a bit.

Free -
https://www8.lunapic.com/editor/?action=dehaze