Is there a way to reduce Haze?

[flameshots]

In landscapes. It's fall leaf season and I would like to see if there's a way to reduce the haze in landscapes. Is there a way to ad a Circular Polarizer effect in post? I am running Light room and photoshop elements 9. Here's an example. Yeah I know a polarizer for the correct shot would be better. Thanks for any insight.

 

[memento]

get a haze filter. and a neutral density filter too.

Luminous landscape

 

[Overread]

If you shot in RAW I would boost the contrast and the blacks slider which would at least lessen the effect in the marginal areas; however the more heavily affected ones are probably a bit too far gone to restore from without looking odd/taking a lot of work.

You might well find that in such situations its best to get there either before when the haze is a thicker effect; or later when the sun has burnt it off.

 

[KmH]

You can use a Skylight 1-A filter to help with haze.

Tiffen 77mm SKY 1-A Filter

 

[MattS2K]

You can reduce the effect of haze somewhat in PP by duplicating the image layer and changing the blend mode to 'multiply'. This will darken the image overall so you then need to mask out the foreground areas where you don't want the effect.

If you want to increase the effect you can duplicate the copied layer, and if you overdo it and want to back off a bit you can reduce the opacity of the last duplicated layer.

I had a very quick go with your picture to see how well it would work. The masking is very crude and would need doing carefully and properly, but you can see some sort of haze 'reduction' effect I think

 

[Ron Evers]

You can use a Skylight 1-A filter to help with haze.

Tiffen 77mm SKY 1-A Filter

Keith, I got one on my Vivitar 400mm from eBay & did a bit of research on it. Finished at the bottom of the tests @ this link:


UV filters test - Description of the results and summary - Lenstip.com

 

[spacefuzz]

matts2k beat me to what I was going to suggest

 

[flameshots]

You can reduce the effect of haze somewhat in PP by duplicating the image layer and changing the blend mode to 'multiply'. This will darken the image overall so you then need to mask out the foreground areas where you don't want the effect.

If you want to increase the effect you can duplicate the copied layer, and if you overdo it and want to back off a bit you can reduce the opacity of the last duplicated layer.

I had a very quick go with your picture to see how well it would work. The masking is very crude and would need doing carefully and properly, but you can see some sort of haze 'reduction' effect I think

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks. I definitely want to try to get it right in the camera first but this will help recover shots that were close but not quite right!