Polarized Grackles 3
A discussion came up in a bird thread on the SomethingAwful.com forums about polarizers and birds. I mentioned the Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula) that often visit my birdfeeder on my balcony.
Today there three to four grackles hopping around out there so I shot a series of photos with my 105mm macro and a circular polarizer. I just twisted the polarizer randomly while taking sets of photos; this series best represents the effects of the grackles' bright purple irridescent feathers on light polarization.
I shot in RAW and the only processing I did was crop and rotatation (roughly levelling to the security bar out-of-focus in many of these pictures) and whatever LR 3.6 does when exporting to JPG.
As far as I can tell, the effect is basically nothing.
Polarized Grackles 3
A discussion came up in a bird thread on the SomethingAwful.com forums about polarizers and birds. I mentioned the Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula) that often visit my birdfeeder on my balcony.
Today there three to four grackles hopping around out there so I shot a series of photos with my 105mm macro and a circular polarizer. I just twisted the polarizer randomly while taking sets of photos; this series best represents the effects of the grackles' bright purple irridescent feathers on light polarization.
I shot in RAW and the only processing I did was crop and rotatation (roughly levelling to the security bar out-of-focus in many of these pictures) and whatever LR 3.6 does when exporting to JPG.
As far as I can tell, the effect is basically nothing.