Recover from Fog

[Shadowman]

Photo taken this summer in heavy fog.

240mm, f/5.6, IAO 800m 1/180s. Edited in PSE

From the camera.


Edited versions.



CiC welcome.

[IzzieK]

This third one is the best in B/W version. I never truly appreciated B/W before until recently when I started really looking at them. My thoughts before were that B/W is too oldish fashion and there are some shots that I had came to really loved very much...B/W brings the best in textures and yours comes very close to it. Love it.

Shoot and shoot some more.

[NorthernFocus]

This is a good one for B/W. Detail shows better and no issues with WB etc.

[Polar01]

John I took your original image and did a little adjustments to bring the bears out a little better. I used CS6, however I believe you can do almost the same in Elements. What I did would go something like this in elements: work the shot in it's raw converter name and save as PSD file. Open that file in Elements, go back to saved raw file and reopen, work the bears do not worry about background, new name and save as PSD file. Now open in Elements, Select>All, Edit>copy (now go to first file) Edit>Paste, this should paste the second image on a new layer above the first layer. Now using the quick select tool, select the bears only, now Select>Refine Edge adjust the edges, once done Ctrl-j to copy to a new layer. Now Filter>Other>High Pass select a number between 1 to 3 OK, now go to blending mode select Overlay or one of the other blends. Next a Curves Adjustment layer where I reset the black point.
I hope that is meets with your approval

Cheers: Allan

[Wavelength]

B/W came out best; i equally liked Allan's edit that restores the original color to the bears

Regards

[Shadowman]

This third one is the best in B/W version. I never truly appreciated B/W before until recently when I started really looking at them. My thoughts before were that B/W is too oldish fashion and there are some shots that I had came to really loved very much...B/W brings the best in textures and yours comes very close to it. Love it.

Shoot and shoot some more.

Thanks for the comments Isabel.

[Shadowman]

This is a good one for B/W. Detail shows better and no issues with WB etc.

Thanks Dan.

[Shadowman]

John I took your original image and did a little adjustments to bring the bears out a little better. I used CS6, however I believe you can do almost the same in Elements. What I did would go something like this in elements: work the shot in it's raw converter name and save as PSD file. Open that file in Elements, go back to saved raw file and reopen, work the bears do not worry about background, new name and save as PSD file. Now open in Elements, Select>All, Edit>copy (now go to first file) Edit>Paste, this should paste the second image on a new layer above the first layer. Now using the quick select tool, select the bears only, now Select>Refine Edge adjust the edges, once done Ctrl-j to copy to a new layer. Now Filter>Other>High Pass select a number between 1 to 3 OK, now go to blending mode select Overlay or one of the other blends. Next a Curves Adjustment layer where I reset the black point.
I hope that is meets with your approval

Cheers: Allan

Allan,

Very nice, thanks for the tips.

[Shadowman]

B/W came out best; i equally liked Allan's edit that restores the original color to the bears

Regards

Nandakumar,

Agreed, thanks for the comments.

[Shadowman]

Another one of my foggy day reworks. PP adjusted blacks and whites in ACR, added a bit of vibrance.

Orignal


Edited