View allAll Photos Tagged polarized
Result: Polarizers are effective at taking out reflections but with notable colour and saturation loss. I would only really use on very sunny and hazy days or special shooting situations.
This is an overlay image I made which demonstrates the effects of the circular polarizer. The polarizer is a filter which is placed on the front of the lens. It rotates freely, so that lenses that rotate during zoom can be corrected for polarization effect. Also, it allows you to manually control the amount of polarization effect. The left side of the image demonstrates minimal effect, while the right side demonstrates maximum polarization effect. Notice the shine the water leaves on the rocks in the left, and how is is removed in the right. Also, the filter adds a lot of contrast, depth and color to the images, as opposed to no filter at all.
I was playing around with my new polarizing filter. This was taken seconds after the previous one, having given the polarizing filter a twiddle.
This was a good day to play around with my polarizer... I got such vivid colors with it! I really wanted to show the colors of fall.
Vertical panorama with 28mm lens and polarizer to remove glare. The color is not significantly altered, it really is that clear and blue.
CP : Cirular Polarizer. Required for most digital cameras; linear polarizers affect autofocus.
On the right: CP filter set to remove reflections on the wet rockface.
On the left: CP set to maximize reflections.
No adjustments to vibrance or saturation. Simply an experiment. I've used polarizers a good deal and have never seen the difference so dramatic. The eye sees an image somewhere in the middle.
A piece of muscovite mica in front of an LCD monitor, as viewed through polarizing sun glasses. An even more impressive view is a plastic bottle of water.
A polarizing filter helped me catch the few remaining red leaves, the current high winds didn't rip off.
All I did was take two similar images, back-to-back, of the same scene. The only difference is that the polarizing filter is turned to produse the maximum effect in the image marked "with" and 90º from maximum in the image marked "without." You can easily notice the changes in the sky, clouds and water.
These are straight off the card with no image alteration at all to make a valid comparison.
Thin sheet of ice, seen through a macro lens and crossed polarized light - the polarized light reveals the inner structure and colors....
Thin sheet of ice, seen through a macro lens and crossed polarized light - the polarized light reveals the inner structure and colors....
Canon EOS 50D
EF-s 60mm f/2.8 USM macro Lens
UV filter
Circular Polarizer
I found that the use of a circular polarizer gave me better control over highlights when making HDR's of flowers. The saturation factor was also much better.
I played around with a polarizing filter on my lens for some of the rainbow shots ... if oriented one way the polarizer makes the rainbow appear much more vivid than without the filter, but turned the other way the rainbow disappears almost completely. Magic!
Polarizing brightens and enriches landscapes and shrubbery, not just skies. Taken with linear (not circular) polarizing filter to demonstrate the effect of reduced reflections in landscape photography. Note brighter colors, less reflection in leaves (center and top).
No image corrections. ISO 500 (auto), f4.5, 1/160 sec. (Faster ISO due to 1.5-2 stops darkening by polarizing filter.)
Cropped to 200 pixels wide, saved at quality 5 in DPP.
For comparison of Polarize vs. InstantCam. I think I prefer this look, but resolution of InstantCam much better. Maybe I'll try PictureShow one of these days.
Grand Canyon shot through a plane window, with circular polarizer clearly interfering more than helping in many shots.
My photo walk of June 8, 2023 in Lyon, France by a stunning summer day with my Nikon F SLR camera (circa 1964-1965). The guiding idea was to use a circular polarizing filter with a color negative film for all outdoor pictures. I did my photo session between about 2pm to 5pm. The temperature reached 33°C in the afternoon and the atmosphere was very clear and dry.
My 60's Nikon F was equipped with its normal lens Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-S 1:2 f=5cm with is lighter than my later period Nikkor-S version 1:1.4 f=50mm from the early 70's. The lens was equipped with the original Nikkor F metal shade hood specific of the 1:2 f=5cm. For all outdoor views the lens was also equipped with a Hakura 52mm polarizing filter oriented for the best color saturation.
I used a Fujifilm 200 36-exposure negative color film (this film is made in the USA and given with the same technical characteristics of Kodak Gold 200). It was exposed for 50 ISO to compensate the polarizing filter absorption, using an Autometer III Minolta lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Quai de Pierre-Scize, June 8, 2023
69005 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was developped by a local lab service using the C-41 protocol. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivo Y76 color pictures.
About the camera and the lens :
This exemplary of Nikon F (engraved "Nippon Kogaku Tokyo") has a serial number beginning by 658xxxx and was consequently manufactured in the mother Oi Nikon factory in Tokyo, Japan, between Dec. 1964 and April 1965. I bought the camera in Feb. 2022 from Japan. The Nikon F body came with the normal lens Nikkor-S 1:2 f=5 cm, branded "Nippon Kogagu". For the photo session the body was equipped with the body shell of a late Nikon F CTT ever ready bag. This body shell holds the original leather neck strap and is made of a metallic shell covered outside by a black leather and a dark-red velvet inside.
This is taken through a polarizer turned to highlight the underlying colors.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
One of the great things about State College is that on my 4 mile "commute" I drive past horses, cattle, poultry barns, sod farms (85% of the grass used on all golf courses in the world were developed at PSU), and pigs. I love it. So the horses were grazing today and I stopped for some shots. I used a polarized filter this time.
This is a shot of one of those protective plastic circles that come with CD spindles. It was taken with a polarizer against an LCD monitor (which also has a polarizer) with a white background. The colors and patterns that appear on the image are due to stress patterns on the plastic. (This image is not retouched, and it's likely a bit blurred since I shot it at 1/15s single handed)