A California Car

[ccorn90]

Both were 40D, 1/160 @ f11 @ 100 ISO.


Your thoughts? Anyone have suggestions for the blue haze over the mountains? I ended up with pretty severe settings in the RAW converter to take it out in the second image, hence the look. Will a CP or a good UV filter take it out?





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[Scott]

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"]Yes wicked haze all nasty stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] From my limited experience a polarizing filter will help, also time of day looks like you have shot pretty much in the middle of the day, nice and hot, lots of airborne nasties. <o:p></o:p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"]Suggest you try same location when you can put the sun behind you, either sunrise or sunset, then shoot with a polarising filter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] This will greatly enhance your blues (sky) and greens (mountains), play around with image and you will see a big difference.<o:p></o:p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"]Looks like nice country side, love the car.<o:p></o:p>

[Chuck Lee]

I agree with Scott. Time of day is your #1 issue.


If there is no do-over, go Black and White andincrease the Black Level as much as you can get away with. This will help get some punch into the washed out look. Compress the range so to speak.


Chuck

[btaylor]

If you have something like Lightroom 2 you could try applying a graduated contrast filter over the mountain/sky areas. This could help reduce some of the haze.


I agreed that a high contrastB+W could actually make a nice image.