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Freezing rain in crossed polarized light
This is just a supposition on my part; but judging by the size & symmetry of this clump of freezing rain I'm going out on a limb and say it was, until very recently, once a snow flake.
Also the heavy...HEAVY birefingence suggest a hidden crystalline structure not found in a simple frozen droplet of water.
discovered while photographing the polaroid archive - there was also a LP of Dr. Land giving this speech.
Sunny, cold morning at Bay City State Park beach. Taken at an off angle to the sun with a circular polarizing filter and wide angle that created the bi-toned sky.
Some fun with Fuji.
Shot a colorful sunset. This time boosted it with Fuji's Velvia film simulation and used a polarizer and exposure bracketed for HDR... Oh and in post added some graduated color filters.. and I bit of Orton effect.. just to add a touch of color.
Basically I overdid everything I could. Because It's Fuji fun time!
Taken from an airplane window. The effect is the polarisation filter on the lens combined with the polarized coating of the airplan window. Photoshop was limited to noise, levels and curves. No saturation was used.
Please view large before making judgement.
I'm not a big polarizer fan, but the sunrise light was at the perfect angle to use one. My friend Anderson handed me his, and luckily it fit my lens. I didn't like the color it made the sky, so I cropped out most of the sky here and lightened it a bit.
I used a very high setting on my polarizer filter for these chicken photos, giving them an interesting look. This hen is pecking about the chicken enclosure at Wright-Locke Farm, with the old squash house up on the hill.
The only difference between these two shots is that the one below was taken using a polarized filter rotated at the right angle to eliminate some of the direct polarized reflection (glare) from the light source.
Subjects that do not conduct electricity (like the plastic above) generate a lot of polarized direct reflection. Subjects that do conduct electricity like the metal in the canon logo generate more direct reflection so he polarizing filter has no effect on the reflection. The background is a piece of blue tissue paper which generates a lot of diffuse reflection, the polarizing filter has no effect over the diffuse reflection.
Understanding the polarization of light gives you an additional level of control in your lighting. You can choose to polarize your light source in order to control reflections in your subjects, or polarize your lens in order to block polarized reflections.
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The effect of shooting with polarizing filter through a polarized window. I have no idea why this rainbow effect happens, as best I can tell it has something to do with...uh...science, I guess. All's I know is I like it.
Give it a try the next time you're on a plane, it's a nice way to pass the time. Works shooting through a lot of car windows too.
Finally, EXPLORED! This is definitely one of my favorite photos I've ever taken, and it's nice to see it getting the recognition it deserves at last :)
Even $5 ones like mine. I stil recommend Tiffen, Hoya, or B&W, because Rocketfish $5 polarizers are horrifying in bright light and reduce information in your photos. But they're still cool and work well enough for shots like these.
When this rainbow was at it's height of color, I did my best to compose a shot from my location and still include it. However, today's shot is more about Polarizing filters than the shot itself. I have read that polarizing filters will eliminate a rainbow and have also read they will enhance a rainbow.
After this, please note they will do both. This shot was taken with a polarizing filter. However, by turning 180 degrees, that same filter would also make the rainbow disappear. In other words, a polarizing filter will do both, depending on the angle the filter is turned, it will either enhance it as in this shot or eliminate it.
After adding my entry to the Macro Mondays group for the theme "Plastic" I decided to add this version to my photostream.
This is the one with the polarizer turned so the background goes black. The colours usually are more funky in this type of photo with the dark background but I preferred the other one in this case.
An early trip to the Dark Peaks near Wassenden - for a change I used a circular PL because of the pond. Maybe I should use it more ofter.
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