Undone, or rather un-dooed.
Color selection and curves to further increase contrast in the trees.
Color selection, cloning and healing brush to clean up the other "mess".
Thanks for the comments, John.
Bob
Guest
14-Aug-2005 10:33
Bob, I suspected you may have already tried what you could. However, what about selecting the hazier parts, or at least creating a selection gradient from left to right (-ish) and using curves or more local contrast enhancement (USM 20%, 50 radius and 0 levels on the original size image)?
Also, as I implied before, some bird excrement reduction would help too. For a quick and dirty attempt, duplicate layer (or just those selected areas you want to treat), gaussian blur, darken blend mode and erase those parts of the image you don't want that affect to apply to (if you used more than the areas in question), then see what it looks like as a simple initial treatment.
John
cbses
13-Aug-2005 19:36
Thanks John,
The original was much hazier and I bumped the contrast as much as I thought prudent. Like most of the east coast here, summer means hazy, hot and humid. I'd kill for a blue sky. I remember reading some haze tips in Retouching. I'll have to revisit them.
Bob
Guest
13-Aug-2005 16:48
Bob, apart from teh evidence of birds, nice scene with good shapes and composition, particularly the perspective. Did you play much with the contrast as much of this is a bit hazy? The shapes in this image quite appeal to me.
John
