[Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

It’s nice to know that a master has use for the haze filter. Makes me wonder less, in regard to all the magic of PS, whether I’m a kid from the suburbs wandering into a sharp men’s store in the big city and walking out in a zoot suit...

I’ve found the de-haze function very helpful in situations that do not involve haze at all. It often improves contrast and overall appearance of ordinary images made under suboptimal conditions. It’s been especially helpful in restoring images that I’ve scanned from my Ektachromes from 50 years ago. It’s often all I need, a one-tool substitute for Clarity plus Vibrance plus color correction plus diddling with saturation and contrast…

—howard

> On May 16, 2018, at 00:33, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> Howard and Adam,
> I’m a proponent of the haze filter in camera raw.  I use it often, even in close shot with lots of bokeh that needs tamed.   The sharpen filter too has made me almost stop using focus magic; it is more controllable unless you need local attention to an area on the image.
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> SonC
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> Sonny Carter
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>> On May 15, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks! I’ll give that a shot! Mucho thanks.
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>> I greatly appreciate people playing with an image and seeing where it goes. I certainly appreciate the feedback!
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>> Adam
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>>> On 2018 May 15, at 7:19 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
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>>> I just found that I could download the image, so I played around with de-haze on it in Camera Raw. I’m new to this aspect of Photoshop, and maybe I’m just a hayseed dazzled by the big city, but I’ve found that some images can be changed in remarkable (and sometimes good, often very bad) ways with de-haze. If you haven’t tried this “filter” on this image, you might find that sliding the control around in the ~50% range will make the clouds look the way you saw them. The slider will take you from a whiteout at -100% to neutral at 0 to apocalyptic at 100%.
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>>> “Clarity” and “Vibrance” have their own effects to contribute to a mind-boggling volume of phase space in image manipulation in Camera Raw. Sorry if I’m preaching to the choir.
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>>> —howard
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>>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>> From: Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018
>>>> Date: May 15, 2018 at 22:00:15 EDT
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> 
>>>> Well, it’s more than “okay”, Adam! If you feel it’s missing something, I’m not sure what it might be. As you’ve Photoshopped it, you’ve probably used or considered using the de-haze function in Camera Raw. Obviously you don’t want to get rid of the haze due to falling snow, but a light application, if you haven’t done so already, might harden the contrast a little and make the image pop a little. Of course, that might be the last thing you want it to do…
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>>>> But it’s a super image, very wall-worthy.
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>>>> —howard
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>>>>> On May 15, 2018, at 18:52, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>>>>> Something different:
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>>>>> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/2018-Rocky-Mountain-National-Park/i-fr66pDn>
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>>>>> Taken from Estes Park looking west to the Rockies.
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>>>>> I’ve struggled a bit with this one. I still can’t quite get the details in the clouds that I saw as I shot it. I find them very difficult.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This was converted from color into b&w in Photoshop, various editing in both.
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>>>>> Shot with Sony A7Riii with 70-200 F4 G OSS Sony lens at F14, hand held. This is stitched panorama of 4 exposures.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The actual image is 16378 x 5046.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’d welcome comments on how to improve it. I feel it’s okay but I’m missing something.
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>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Adam
>>>>> 
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