Fog-B-Gone I had a few questions about the Sturgeon Bay Pierhead Light photo that I posted on Facebook. I mentioned in the comment on the photo that I’d used the new “Dehaze” feature/slider in the most recent version of Lightroom CC 2015. Here’s the before and after: Thoughts… As you can see, the results are pretty amazing. The “before” image is right out of the camera. The only thing I did to the “after” shot was move the “Dehaze” slider in the Develop Module all the way to the right (+100). The photo does have more grain and artifacts, and the colors are a little overdone and false, but almost all of the fog from the scene has been removed! Amazing. What do you think? Have you had the chance to use this yet? Please let me know in the comments below! Here’s where you can find the slider:
I can’t believe that only 6 short months ago I was using iPhoto to manage and edit all of my photos. Since then, I’ve switched to Lightroom and don’t think I can ever go back. Lightroom makes it so easy to get incredible results in a very short period of time. I’m amazed at how a seemingly boring photo can be salvaged and become a work of art. Take this photo I took while walking around north of Lake Phalen in Saint Paul. It was a dreary, cold day and I was walking back to my car and liked how the Gateway Trail bridge was framing the one behind it (Frost Ave.). I thought it might make a good grayscale photo when I got it back on my computer. The before is pretty drab, eh? I think if I had opened this photo in iPhoto, I would have passed it up. But in Lightroom you can quickly hover over certain presets and immediately see a preview of what the image would look like with that preset applied. I did just that with some of the black and white presets I had installed and really liked this one. A little bump in […]
