Good Morning, Class – I know it’s been a few days since my last post. You know how it goes. You get busy doing things, either photography or regular home/chore/errands and you find you don’t have time for much else. I wanted to show you some example photos Before/After using a lovely little tool in Adobe Lightroom, called the Dehaze slider. You might find it helpful for some of your own images.
These photos were taken during a 2016 autumn visit to the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Autumn, for me, is a magical time to visit any national park, with some caveats. Autumn in Mount Rainier may mean wonderfully crystal-clear skies with The Mountain out in its full splendor, or it might mean you are socked in with low-hanging clouds and fog. While the fog/mist can create some ephemeral, haunting images, it can also get in the way, at times. And, that’s where the Dehaze slider comes in. It really does reduce the amount of whiteness/haziness that you might have in your imagery. The more you move the slider to the right, the more the haze is reduced.
These images are pretty much not edited in any other way than whatever preset I used in Lightroom, along with the Dehaze tool. I didn’t do anything in Photoshop except convert the TIF images to JPG and the color space from ProPhoto RGB to sRGB, with adjustments to the saturation and brightness.
If you use Lightroom for your own photo editing and have never tried out the Dehaze slider, I urge you to play around with it and see whether or not you like it.
Blue Grouse chick – before using the Dehaze slider
Blue Grouse chick – after using the dehaze slider
Hoary marmot – before using the Dehaze slider
Hoary marmot – after using the dehaze slider
Visitor center at Paradise – before using the Dehaze slider
Visitor center at Paradise – after using the Dehaze slider
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Becky, I have been using the Dehaze slider for awhile now. Your images show a really good application of this adjustment in LR. I have mostly used the Dehaze with landscape shots, where the sky is hazy either due to dust or water vapor. I have noted that adding too much dehaze can adversely affect the image, even to the extent that sometimes, I have to completely eliminate its use. I think the dehaze adjustment is very sensitive to other LR adjustments.
It is a wonderful tool, and as Ken mentioned the overuse of it can be detrimental. I’ve experimented with various combinations of clarity and dehaze, One or the other, or both. It takes a gentle touch in my opinion but it certainly makes a huge difference in certain applications like the ones you show. In fact these are superb examples.
By the way, yes I’m still using the Mark ll ❤️😁 thank you