19/08/2021
One of my photography clubs has a Digital Night once a month...lately it has been on Zoom. One of the members, usually Ron who is fantastic both in editing and in teaching it, presents an editing skill to review or learn. Along with examples and demonstrations, I always learn something useful on Digital Night.
Last month, he talked about re-editing some pics we edited several years ago. He said along with our newer knowledge and the improvement of the software, he thought we'd see a big difference.
This month, he took a couple photos shot by a club member who'd just returned from a vacation to some beautiful areas in the west, but the smoke had made almost all their photographs a big disappointment to them. Ron was able to edit the smoke almost completely out of a couple photographs and ended up saving the images.
I needed a photograph with a similar problem, that I could practice the new skill on. No smoke, but a lousy, hazed picture was taken on the waterfront in Charlestown, South Carolina. , I could see something out in the water, but had no idea it was Fort Sumter until I got home and looked at the shot on the computer.
I was using my 70-300 lens on my Canon 80D camera and had it set at its max...300mm. It not only was taken hand held, but there was a cat in a backpack on my back. I know better, but it was a last minute shot right before moving north.
I made a virtual copy in Lightroom so we could compare the before and after. It was shot in Raw. Granted, it is still a very poor quality picture and would not be of much use other than as a personal memory of a trip you took, but it took me much longer to write about it, than to edit it.