Beach haze

GiselleGiselle Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
edited June 8, 2006 in People
I found a great spot on the beach where the rocks hit the waves without getting you wet and zero sand from car to water, not good for a day at the beach but great for portraits! Anyway, it has a really bad haze any suggestions? Here are a few from this weekend...
Giselle

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  • GiselleGiselle Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2006
    #2
    Giselle
  • GiselleGiselle Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2006
    lets try that again...
    Giselle
  • tomthephotographertomthephotographer Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited May 23, 2006
    Number two loks great can you lighten it about half a stop? Good work.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,972 moderator
    edited May 23, 2006
    Giselle wrote:
    I found a great spot on the beach where the rocks hit the waves without getting you wet and zero sand from car to water, not good for a day at the beach but great for portraits! Anyway, it has a really bad haze any suggestions? Here are a few from this weekend...
    I don't think the haze is any problem at all in these. The foreground is perfectly sharp. I would straigten the horizon in both, though, and maybe make the second one a bit brighter. Nice shooting. thumb.gif

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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited May 23, 2006
    Here are a couple ways of doing it. I'm sure there are better ways but these seem to work fairly well. Use one or a combination of them.
    • Boost the contrast a little bit, +5 to +10.
    • You can do a levels adjustment and bring the shadows up a little bit.
    • Use USM with settings of 15, 30, 0
    Basically anything you do that affects contrast will help to get rid of the haze. Hope this helps. You can also search for Haze in the Photoshop Shenanigans forum and find a couple other suggestions.
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  • tomthephotographertomthephotographer Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited June 7, 2006
    Very Nice.
    Like them both.
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  • illuminati919illuminati919 Registered Users Posts: 713 Major grins
    edited June 7, 2006
    You have a beautiful subject and your setting is awesome. You should try to throw in a flash somehwere maybe one with a sync cord coming from the left because it looks like the ambient light is hitting her face on the right. Other then that, I like them. thumb.gif
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  • GiselleGiselle Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2006
    Thank you all for you advise. I haven't had a chance to work on them yet but I will update the thread when I do.
    Giselle
  • mpmcleodmpmcleod Registered Users Posts: 288 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2006
    illuminati919 wrote:
    You have a beautiful subject and your setting is awesome. You should try to throw in a flash somehwere maybe one with a sync cord coming from the left because it looks like the ambient light is hitting her face on the right. Other then that, I like them. thumb.gif


    I like #2 and I agree that it could use a flash to set her and the rock off from the waves. Personally I found it a bit distracting that her head was "cut" by the horizon. But that just be my taste.

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  • GiselleGiselle Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2006
    mpmcleod wrote:
    I like #2 and I agree that it could use a flash to set her and the rock off from the waves. Personally I found it a bit distracting that her head was "cut" by the horizon. But that just be my taste.

    Was this shot in Galveston?

    It is Galveston
    Giselle
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