One of the neat things about landscape photography is that any one frame can be edited in numerous ways to produce many vastly different but equally compelling results. And while many editing techniques are somewhat ubiquitous across all those different styles, this interesting video tutorial explores an unusual but simple approach to adding more atmosphere to foggy landscape images.
Coming to you from Mark Denney, this excellent video tutorial will show you how to use negative dehaze to enhance fog in a landscape image. Lightroom's dehaze functionality was introduced a few years ago to help photographers bring back contrast and detail in images marred by undesired fog or haze, but that little slider can also move in opposite direction, effectively adding "haze" to the image. This can soften the image slightly and help to enhance that foggy, misty atmosphere you are going for. Like most landscape editing tricks, though, the important thing is to not overdo it, especially since the dehaze slider can quickly make rather drastic global changes to photos. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Mark Denney.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out our latest tutorial, "Photographing the World: Japan With Elia Locardi!"
Dehaze is a awesome slider it helps many things. Thanks for the info. One thing to watch for is a blueish tint going positive on whites and to remove some go negative instead of using color sliders. Lr just gets better and the exploring of it is better than any game. Like getting the correct white tint of the moon you see up high not bright blinding white for it reflects the sunlight off a grey surface to light the night in pure white light, go figure how light works.