I know I had seen a tutorial here that I think was about contrast masking, but it also acted like a haze filter as well, but I can't find it now. The one I did see didn't say anything about a haze filter, but I was almost positive it said something about it.
I thought it involved something in Photoshop about using an inverse of something.
Does anyone have a recollection of this tutorial, I know not much to go on, but I thought the shot used was of a lake at dusk or dawn with the shoreline in the foreground.