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Giselle
May-22-2006, 04:25 PM
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
May-22-2006, 04:27 PM
#2
Giselle
May-22-2006, 04:31 PM
lets try that again...
tomthephotographer
May-22-2006, 11:52 PM
Number two loks great can you lighten it about half a stop? Good work.
Richard
May-23-2006, 12:39 AM
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

Regards,
gluwater
May-23-2006, 12:42 AM
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, 0Basically anything you do that affects contrast will help to get rid of the haze. Hope this helps. You can also search for Haze (http://dgrin.com/search.php?searchid=18298) in the Photoshop Shenanigans forum and find a couple other suggestions.
tomthephotographer
Jun-06-2006, 11:37 PM
Very Nice.
Like them both.
illuminati919
Jun-07-2006, 12:22 AM
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
Giselle
Jun-08-2006, 01:45 PM
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.
mpmcleod
Jun-08-2006, 02:05 PM
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


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?
Giselle
Jun-08-2006, 02:19 PM
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