Is this fixable?

OK, so I've been toying around with this image for the last hour or so. SOOC was really hazy looking. This is the original image after some Camera RAW editing. The sky was originally blown out but that was because I was trying to get a shot of the river.

This was shot at right around sunset and I was looking towards the sunset which I believe was off to my left.

This is what I was able to come up with.

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To "fix it", you must form in your mind "what is the problem"...have you done that?

The haziness is the problem. How do I fix that by making it look less hazy?

Fix is a relative term. You boosted the exposure and contrast, but the result looks a bit artificial. I think it depends on what you are trying to get out of it. I dont think its ever going to be a great image bexause the source is pretty underexposed, but you can and have made it workable.

You cant cut haze in post.

Ya might try PPing the sky/river/forest differently, via selections.

chauncey wrote in post #17635419
Ya might try PPing the sky/river/forest differently, via selections.

yup, doing some selective color corrections will rerun the blue trees to green.

OP, you wanna post the original for us to mess around with and repost after editing?

Here's the file. https://www.dropbox.co​m …0kn0m7c/P100008​3.RW2?dl=0

All I was looking for was a way to make it look better.

See if you like this version.

While you can remove some haze in post, there is only so much you can do. I would also say that the subject itself isn't terribly interesting and could use some work.

Dang. Rrblint you killed that edit. Amazing job. As far as the sky, an easy fix would to just be blowing it out completely. Or a composite like rrblint did. But that's a little more difficult. To be honest though, the haze isn't that bad at all. I've shot wayyyy worse as far as haze goes.

My version>cropped out most of sky>selected river and retained blur color and blurred the over exposed splotches>applied HDR toning.

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If you have LR CC then you'd be amazed at what you can recover w/ the Dehaze function. I can't pull the dropbox raw file (I'm in China) but just playing w/ the jpg shows me there is more information than you think in the sky.

I was going to suggest the dehaze slider in LR but post above beat me to it....