It’s generally far more effective than applying noise reduction or even adjusting the blacks to compensate for this “mistiness” between the stars. While increasing the contrast and saturation’s one way to go about fixing this, Lightroom’s Dehaze tool often does a much better job. Night photography requires a high ISO and no matter how good your camera, a high ISO almost always creates a haze in between the stars. Lightroom’s Dehaze slider is perhaps one of the best tools for intensifying and emphasizing night skies.

Bumping up the contrast slider works if there’s not enough contrast all the way around, but what do you do when the highlights and shadows are contrasted enough, but the midtones are flat?īecause the dehaze slider only adds contrast to areas of low contrast, it’ll target the greyed out midtones and leave the high contrast areas alone. If you shoot in black and white, you probably know that much of the secret to amazing photos lies in the level of contrast.

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It even works when the skies are blown out! Lightroom’s Dehaze filter actually does a fantastic job of returning detail and color to skies. Here are my favorite unconventional applications: That makes it uniquely useful in several different applications, not just removing haze.

Unlike the Contrast slider, it avoids areas that already seem “contrasty”. What’s cool about this filter is that it only boosts the contrast in areas that look flat. Conversely, if you want to add more haze or mist for artistic reasons, you can also lessen the contrast and increase the haze.

It’s perfect for bringing out the details of landscapes where distant objects look washed out. Simply put, the Lightroom Dehaze filter fixes haze by heightening the overall contrast of a photo.

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