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Some days are worse than others.
Mist, smog, smoke, haze, fog, high humidity, overcast conditions, all can give that hazy and dull look to your photographs. I've been able to work around a lot of it by manually adjusting contrast, gamma, and brightness in various software programs, but some of it just fights me no matter what I try. And I've had some otherwise pretty good shots unusable because of the darn old hazy look that I just couldn't get rid of. But generally looks bad after it swims to the back of the tank. Haze and soft contrast problems becomes significantly worse.