polarized flowers
This diptych shows how you can use a polarizing filter to deepen colors when shooting foliage. The top image has the polarizer rotated to minimize sunlight reflected from the leaves, resulting in deep green leaves with red veins. The result is closer to what my eyes see than the bottom image, in which I've rotated the polarizer 90 degrees to accentuate the glare. The leaves look shiny and almost white. Although I don't show an example, shooting without the polarizer results in an image much closer to the bottom image than the top. So, if you're trying to capture the color of foliage (for example, fall leaves), you might want to add a polarizing filter to your bag of tricks.
Tech details:
Nikon D100
135mm
1/160 sec
f/5
ISO 400
polarized flowers
This diptych shows how you can use a polarizing filter to deepen colors when shooting foliage. The top image has the polarizer rotated to minimize sunlight reflected from the leaves, resulting in deep green leaves with red veins. The result is closer to what my eyes see than the bottom image, in which I've rotated the polarizer 90 degrees to accentuate the glare. The leaves look shiny and almost white. Although I don't show an example, shooting without the polarizer results in an image much closer to the bottom image than the top. So, if you're trying to capture the color of foliage (for example, fall leaves), you might want to add a polarizing filter to your bag of tricks.
Tech details:
Nikon D100
135mm
1/160 sec
f/5
ISO 400