so its been a while since i've been on or even found the time to do much with regards to photography, but I recently read an article on hazy light and thought i'd try it with one of my images
Here's the original with very little post processing besides crop
And the post processing where i've tried to make it a little hazier. What are your thoughts? critique please?
@shuterfly thanks for being the first to reply and your opinion. I get what you're saying with that... I guess my aim here was to achieve more of that hazy / dreamy look - dont think i got there but thought the second edit was interesting
@toast I don't own photoshop of any type. If I need to post process I have to do it in a basic editor program. I can change colors and cut and paste. I can control transparency and layers. But at a heavy cost in file size. So I don't do much post. I would recommend maybe a fog filtering of sorts in selective areas. Or another shot altogether with smoke in the shot.I use incense sticks out of view of frame for my smoke effects.
The edited one isn't looking very dreamy, more just paler. If anything it looks even sharper than the original; maybe some de-sharpening needs to happen?
@toast weng they all look good!!! .... but i prefer the 2nd one .... to make it hazy i guess I will try to adjust my exposure > offset then color balance .
Looks more desat + high contrast (not that I don't like that look), rather than hazy. I usually adjust colour temp with haze effects (usually slightly warmer) or add some yellow. Blend modes can be good here.
Thanks for all the input all... For the record, yep i use lightroom and realise that I'm trying to use it for something that it shouldn't be used for. Essentially I just shifted the histogram, desaturated, colour temp change.
Adding blur just lost to much detail around the eyes, and while I can do this using tools in lightroom, I think I'm getting to the area of "just use photoshop"
ok well after thinking about everything, I decided to resaturate version two and edit a bit to get to a place where I like it - for now.. here's the final. Thanks for your input everyone!
In photoshop, you can get a "glow" (or what I think you are referring to when you say "hazy") look by duplicating the layer, giving it a good blur (20-40px), then setting the blend mode to screen (high key) or multiply/overlay/soft light (low key).
Don't know if you can do something similar in lightroom. But the combination of a sharp layer + blurred layer, blended together gives you that soft, hazy look without just being simply blurry.
@eyebrows lol actually created a layer, made it blurry, then set its opacity to 40% and deleted the area around the eyes so the original eyes (sharp and clear) came out. The result ended up looking like a 1970's "i'm a housewife and just got some naughty pictures of me to hang up the entrance of my house". And yes, this sort of thing does happen and yes, my aunty was one of those people lol
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Beautiful photo over all.
First one looks more natural, the second one doesn't read hazy to me. I would try some soft focus type pp rather than desat.
Adding blur just lost to much detail around the eyes, and while I can do this using tools in lightroom, I think I'm getting to the area of "just use photoshop"
Don't know if you can do something similar in lightroom. But the combination of a sharp layer + blurred layer, blended together gives you that soft, hazy look without just being simply blurry.
I like your final result.
Loving the new "final" edition also, very nice