I made some edits with darktable of this shot of mine and I really find difficult to make the background pop up from the haze…have fun with this!
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Nice scene you have there! Were you on a sailboat yourself? How was the wind? Bookmarked for processing. 
Tough and nice to play with! Thanks for sharing.
The best I could do was triplicating filmic and remove haze/adjust colors with tone curve. It seems artificial to me (especially the water), but at least I could recover some detail in the background (I think… 
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I’m a sucker for sailing pictures…
Here’s my take, in rawproc:
- open with colorspace=prophoto;gamma=linear;whitebalance=auto; this is my default playraw open
- denoise:wavelet
- blackwhitepoint:rgb, to stretch the contrast
- curve:blue, I don’t have a dehaze tool, so this is my attempt to neutralize its blue cast only in the lower and mid-tones
- curve:rgb: attempt to adjust the overall tones
- crop: put the sailboat on the right third line, put the sky into a bit more prominence
- saturation: just a bit, to see what would happen
- resize: to a manageable upload size
- sharpen: because I always do that post-resize
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I love that bird in the sky
Unfortunately I wasn’t on that boat but it would be great!
I was playing with G’MIC and accidentally came across an interesting effect. Thought it might suit this photo. Minimal processing. The contrast might be too low for your liking…
1. PhotoFlow → basic processing → filmic (OCIO; very low contrast)
2. gmic→ new effect
Zoom 100% and enjoy!
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My take using Rawtherapee:
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Of the ones uploaded so far, the one I like best is the one uploaded by @yteaot
What I don’t like are the artifacts in the clouds; they are quite numerous and distracting. I know that @yteaot tends to push the processing to the seams and I agree it seems to work for this photo.
Garde See or Lago de Garda? I saw it 60 years ago driving South from Germany into Italy in a Rambler Station Wagon that came across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth. In those daze the Rambler was a small car in the States–and an enormous one in Europe. I’ll see what I can do.
…or maybe not. I only see a jpeg to download.
I completely missed that until pulling up the larger version. For me it was the mountains and the greenery that made it.
Managed to recover some detail in the dark hazy mountains. However, there’s very little color information there. Tough shot to get right and you exposed maybe a bit to conservatively leaving not a lot tonal range to work with. On the plus side, no blown out highlights in the sky.
I started with the filmic module to get the overall tone right. I then used the haze filter and zone system to compress the mountains with a parametric mask to limit the effect a bit. Then I used a series of tone curves to work on the sky and the mountains again. I used color zones to boost contrast outside a narrow band of blue that seems to make the most of this. Denoise profile to smooth out some of the noise in the dark parts.
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