shots with lens condensation

finbarqs

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crank up the exposure and brightness and contrast... from a photograph standpoint, it just looks under exposed, low contrast.
 

slashbinslashbash

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Bring up the black level and bring down the white level. This will make a huge difference and is always the first thing I do to hazy or foggy images. The haze makes everything gray, so you lose the deep blacks and the white whites. You can restore them by moving the black and white points. Also up the saturation a bit (+10 or so) and same with the contrast. Auto levels might do the same thing, but you can tweak it if you do it manually.

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It didn't make it into a perfect image, but if you compare the two then there's a big difference.
 
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skulkingghost

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Mess with the levels / curves, then touch up contrast. Sorry about removing some bits, I was having fun with the new Photoshop beta...

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yhelothar

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This isn't really my style, but the low contrast is a big component of the vintage look that's the hippest thing now... well among hipsters, à la instagram/holgas.

Just do a little color balance for "shadow tones" to the warm side and adjust curves to taste. You might want to add a vignette to taste with gradient -> radial -> black to transparent(experiment with colors) -> blending mode soft light -> opacity 30-60%(to taste)

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DarkRogue

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Mess with the levels / curves, then touch up contrast. Sorry about removing some bits, I was having fun with the new Photoshop beta...

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lol, the 'tog on the left suddenly disappearing was humorous.
I don't think it was a good idea to remove the boat on the upper right though. It looks unnatural to me now, because you still have its trail in the water that abruptly ends, and if you enlarge it, you clearly see a smudge where the trails end.

Otherwise, the main problem with this image (IMO) is that it's still far too underexposed.
There's no detail in the sky (looks like a cloudy day) so you might as well just blow it out to bring everyone else up. It's supposed to be a wedding - grey skies make it look more melancholy than it should be.

Here's my quick and dirty edit. Ran it through very briefly; there are still more things that can be done to clean up the image, but I don't have much time this morning. :p
I'm also still using CS4, so no content-aware fill for me. :(
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Removed the boat using the healing brush though, as it was easy enough. Turned the wake into a more smoothly fading wave.
 

skulkingghost

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Could also create a fake sky... I am not a big advocate of doing it, but it adds more detail to the photo.
 

finbarqs

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Mess with the levels / curves, then touch up contrast. Sorry about removing some bits, I was having fun with the new Photoshop beta...

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How is the new photoshop? Is it more like lightroom now? Or did it keep some of the same elements? Was it easy to remove that photog?