So I got some emails wondering what I meant by post processing in the image of the burial mounds from yesterdays post.  Seeing as I have not got to teach Nik goodies lately, here you go.

One of the many great filters inside of Color Efex 3.0 is the Pro Contrast filter.  It is great tool for “haze removal.”  Now I am not talking cut through zero visibility fog to see a subject that you could not see before, but a haze that looks like a light fog or smoke blowing across the image.

Before - Straight out of the camera

To start the process on finishing this image I went to the Nik Selective tool and chose Pro Contrast from the list.  Once it Color Efex 3.0 opened I played with the Correct Color Cast and the Correct Color sliders and ended up setting them both at 50% which looked pretty good.  As you can see below all the have from the photo is gone but I still have a gray sky to deal with.

With Nik ProContrast filter applied

Finally, I needed to give the sky a better appearance and for that I took the image into Viveza.  I  dropped a single control point on the sky and from there I adjusted the Blue slider to about 65% and bumped up the contrast a bit more (around 10%).  Now I didn’t want to have everything with a Blue tint so I hit the Brush button to open the selective tool inside of Nik so I could just paint the sky.  A few quick brush strokes later and it is finished.

Final - Viveza applied to give a blue sky

And there you have it, a quick fix for some fun.

BTW if you would like to email me there is a new tab at the top of the page that say “Contact Me”  I was having an unusal influx of spam so I went this route instead.  So as always feel free to drop me a line.  As well, as a little experiment I am going to open up the comments again.  Hopefully, I will not have to close them down again.