Fog Lifting in the Fall

Had fun with this image of a beautiful backyard in rural Virginia. Tried to copy the effect created by Albert Dros to get a fog lifting feel. The original RAW image was actually quite bright. To get a slight fog feel a short technique sent out by Adobe Creative Cloud recently called Enhance Fog and Haze by Liam Man was used. It is for night scenes, but it turned out fine on this overcast daytime scene. Mainly the Neural Beta Filter Depth Blur was downloaded and the Haze slider was adjusted for the image -the Haze was set to 60, Blur Strength to 11, Saturation to +11, and Brightness -8. The Focal point was placed on the main green leaves in the middle of the image. After outputting as a New Layer and blurred foreground areas that should not be blurred were painted over in an added layer mask. Some clean up was done and a Color Lookup Adjustment Layer added (used Scott Kelby’s Farm preset). Last step involved Opening the Camera Raw Filter and adding a vignette by using Scott’s tip to create a Vignette set to exactly -11 for landscape images – always makes them look good. He is right! …..Digital Lady Syd