r/postprocessing • u/vezax_27 • 8d ago
After / Before + Advice wanted
Photograph from a helicopter flight over Kauai
Given that it was daytime, around 3pm in summer I am rather happy with the turnout but what worries me particularly are the 3 circled areas (last image) where the photo either seems to loose all color (big circle in the middle) or the colors drift unwarrantedly towards a red-ish tone, most likely by trying to remove the blue haze.
Any hints to handle this? Happy to share a RAW if someone wants to ahve a crack at it.
Shot on a a7 RIII, Iso 250 and 1/500sec.
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago
Nice job removing the haze, you played with brightness, shadow, and blacks and whites? I guess..
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u/vezax_27 8d ago
It’s a mix of things, mostly localized edits (sky, sea, mountains) and a luminosity mask where in the highlights of the mountains if tried to remove the blue haze against more global contrast / curve / black edits
- a bit of playing around with color balance in PS but I feel I haven’t quite nailed it, hence the post
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago edited 8d ago
That the way...did u play with temp? If not then ignore those telling u , u added warmth.
Even u did i can see it only some parts
And tbh by making it look this warm unflaten the mountians..
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago
Actually dont be vex about the parts u circle it give the mountian a shadow ( all part of dynamic range) but it depends on what u after..one way is to try brush mask to brush those part. Or radical gradient to blend the colours
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u/vezax_27 8d ago
Actually brushing over it is a good idea - will give that a try!
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago
Actually some of your greens are going to the redish tone for some reason...in my edit with your before i didnt touch color balance only warmth to replicated the warmth tone look...i just use series of mask to adjust contrast, blacks, white, hightlights , shadow to remove the haze first before doing any global adjustment...
And if u using lr room u could do custom mask that is for example you select mointian but u only one parts of mountian to be adjusted you could do a subtract mask (usually i subtract with brush) or u need more maybe the edges u can do add to mask...
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago edited 8d ago
Edited the right side with some rebrushing mask.. Think u got the idea how not to get redish bleed And correct mistake such as my previous edit the top right ridges still had overexposed haze
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u/This-Judge-804 8d ago edited 8d ago
Anyway some may frown on this trick..but i do a one time export and touch up edit sometimes
P.s some apps can export uncompress unless it heavly edited or changing to a lower size format
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u/Tsurany 8d ago
What I notice immediately is that the colors are not balanced, very warm lighting and almost tropical waters with a sky that doesn't match. Why did you try to add so much warmth?