Miriam

We used to think photos couldn't lie. I'm bemused, not to say occasionally appalled to see how reality can be manipulated. When you see an unusual photo you can't help thinking "Do you suppose that really happened?"

Lynn415 Loc: Illinois

I love Mt Hood and I like all of your efforts but hard to know which is the best not being there at that time to know what the true colors were. I can only imagine! Were the shots in RAW or JPEG? I couldn't help but give one a try. Adjusted white balance, sharpness, clarity, vibrance, contrast, sky adjustment, vignette and cropped. If this was shot in RAW, it's meant to be processed manually. Love all of the efforts here-what fun.

Lynn415 Loc: Illinois

Love this one!

OonlyBonly

The three shots processed using Picturenaut 3.2. No changes.

artar Loc: Keene, TX

One more attempt. This time I took a single photo through Photomatix ant then into PSE

bsdml Loc: Chicago il.

I agree

bsdml Loc: Chicago il.

I don't think they were saying they are a perfect photographer, but let's face it that photo was badly exposed. To be a better photographer you must learn to get it right in the camera first then, then worry about pp.

greymule Loc: Colorado

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

This is my attempt.

greymule Loc: Colorado

I like it. Very interesting.

Thank you.

al davis Loc: chesterfield virginia

Hello Greymule. I found your post very interesting it reminded me of a family vacation in 2009 when my family and I visited family in New Hampshire and Maine.I came across the same situation with fog and haze when I tried to photograph the Nubble light house on the Maine coast.I did everything you did tried different exposure f stops and anything else I could think of.I was fustrated to say the least at trying to get a clear shot of the light house.In my camera bag I had my filters I put on my polerizer did not have much luck with that.I found it very difficult to get the colors through the fog.Then I thought about trying my diffuser filter to diffuse the light I have herd that a diffuser helps in fog or haze now I do not know if this is true nor do I remember if I used it or not,nor do I remember if I stacked my filters sorry about that.But I am going to post a couple of photographs of the light house taken that day.I hope you don't mind.I do remember doing some pp in elements 6.The reason I bring this up is because we are our own worst critics when fustration sets in.I will give the settings for each photo.I must have used filters on the second photo before pp.I only use Hoya or b&w filters when the wife lets me buy them.There was not much difference in the settings that leads me to believe it was my filters I hope this helps.

:mrgreen: :-D :-D

exposure 1/25 f5 iso 100 white balance auto


exposure1/60 f6 iso 100 white balance auto

greymule Loc: Colorado

:thumbup: :thumbup:

Second one really cut through the fog with just a small decrease in exposure. Very interesting.

I did use a B&W polarizer, which is supposed to help with haze. Oh well, can only hope to trturn to the scene of the...

MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

I think that better result for the 2-nd picture was reached by PP. I tryied PP for the 1-st one and result IMHO is not so bed. I did not correct vignetting to prove that I was correcting the 1-st picture.

Jamers Loc: Michigan

You state "when THE wife lets you buy them" who's wife are you referring to?

UtahBob Loc: Southern NJ

I thought you could just click the "Watch" Button at the top of the thread (not all the way up) and it would do the same thing?