My first Aerial Shot

[curtiswheat]

A little CC on my first aerial shot. This has no Post done to it yet, any suggestions to help remove the haze would be appreciated.



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Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 1 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

[ELAY]

Re haze, two suggestions.

First, levels adjustment, pulling dark and light sliders as far as you can.

Second, local contrast enhancement -- lots of tutorials out there, here's one for photoshop.

EL

[curtiswheat]

Thanks for the tip..

[ELAY]

That certainly punched it up.

A killjoy stickler (but not me of course) might note the blown highlights (look at the roofs and the water tower-looking thing), and say either that you moved your light slider in a tad too much, or alternatively suggest that you mask the really bright parts a bit when doing your levels.

Do you have the opportunity to do much aerial photography?

[FrankenPengie]

Here's a more natural look. I often don't stick with Auto-Levels settings. I think this could afford a little more color but I just wanted to throw up a quickie for ya.



Using CS3: Auto-Levels, layer copy, apply High Pass filter, set layer mode to Soft Light and opacity to 45%.