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The Cold Coast - 4 (of 14) - Canon EOS 1D Mark II with Canon EF 28-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS USM (EOS mount) & Polarizer - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Noticed this polarized reflection in an office building and thought it was great. Nice statue to go with it too.
These are clear plastic forks lit with cross polarization. The light is covered with a sheet of polarized film and the camera has a polarizer on it too.
Best viewed large. All rights reserved. In direct, bright sunlight I inserted a circular polarizing filter in hopes of making the bright, irridescent feather colors pop...I think they pop!
don't mind this after A LOT of editing haha
hopefully will have a shoot with a ferrari in the next few weeks :)
uh-oh. I got a polarizing filter.
stepped outside after a storm to take a few sample shots. yummy.
anyway: I feel like I should mention adorama and how fast they get stuff delivered. I ordered this thing thursday evening.
this may be the best $20 I ever spent.
check out the colors and depth to the clouds. i was driving home and the clouds thru my polarized sunglasses looked amazing. luckily i had a polarizer with me for the camera too because without one the difference was night and day.
I really like polarizing filters. They have several uses, but my favorite is for landscapes and other applications where there is a lot of sky. You can really bring out the deep blues and the clouds for dramatic photos. there are limitations, of course, such as having the best results perpendicular to the direction of the Sun and limitations with how wide you can go in terms of field of view, but when it works, it really works well.
This is essentially the same shot where I did not and did use a polarizing filter. The top picture is "okay", but the bottom picture is both more dramatic and separates the plane from the sky much better. The same can be done with landscapes to separate the sky and the land.
Top: naked sony nex.
Middle: Zeikos polarizer (~$4).
Bottom: Tiffen polarizer (~$20).
Granted was a quick and dirty test but I don't see any noticeable difference between the $4 and $20 CPLs. They both reduce reflections about the same and darken the overall image about the same.
Can someone explain to me why photographers pay $100 or $150 for a B+W brand polarizer? What does it do differently?
While on our way back from the TallGrass Prairie, Michael and I decided to check out this state park (whose name I can't remember...should have taken a pic of the sign, shouldn't I?).
I thought it was worth a shot to do a quick 'scape of the lake/clouds/surrounding area, but probably nothing to write home to Mom about ;)
PS. Osage Hills State Park
Unfortunately missed a few cars driving around the past few days, but this was a nice surprise on Friday and made a decent combo with the weekly 599 over there.
Ok, the story. I was out wandering far and wide yesterday (my goal was to burn an entire tank of gas before I came home) and I found this amazing little tattered house in the middle of nowhere. It was abandoned, but oddly enough there was next to no vandalism. I stopped and got out to take some pictures, and when I went inside I found thousands upon thousands of polaroids; tacked to the brightly colored walls, covering the dilapidated wooden floors, filling the bathtubs and sinks. Photos of beautiful places and interesting people. It was one of the most beautiful yet creepy things I have ever seen. Hanging from the walls were half a dozen polaroid cameras, and the cabinets in the kitchen were stacked with polaroid film and batteries. Bizarre no?
Lazy Summer - 3 (of 5) - Panasonic Lumix FZ200 & Polarizer - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
The whole day, I was thinking about what to shoot for today, but nothing was coming to mind. Got home from work and saw these sunglasses lying around and wondered if I could do something with it.. At first I thought I would do a SP, but then all you guys saw how scary I look, so scrapped that idea. Didn't want to torture my kids either, so it was down to this.
Would you believe me if I said that this was shot using white back light? And, that I did NOT use Photoshop to reverse/invert the colors or exposure at all... I know the genius photogs out there already know out how this can be achieved... :-)
And of course, I had to do one in b/w as well.. :-) Yes, I did convert that in Photoshop.
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This is SOOC.
The effect of using a circular polarizing filter (CPL) on a wide angle lens (10mm).
Of course, the CPL maximally polarizes light at a 90 degree angle from the sun (dropping off progressively to zero in direct line with the sun). In this case, the low sun was 90 degrees to port (as the paddler's left shoulder is basking in sunlight, while the right is in shadow). The effect is obvious here with that blue swath in the sky. Got to watch out for this effect as it can be distracting and ruin a wide angle image on a bright, sunny day.
Check this for more about polarization...
December 1993.
Film: Fujichrome Velvia 50ASA..
Camera: Pentax-LX.
Lens: smc Pentax-M 50mm.
Filter: Hoya Polarizer
Exposure: f/11, 1/60sec.
Using tiffen polarizer. Top is where it's rotated to have least effect, bottom where it's rotated to have most effect. It does show much more effect here than the other times I've tried clouds, so maybe I previously wasn't doing a good job deciding when to use it. I gotta admit it makes a pretty noticeable difference here. Though, it is oddly much more noticable on some screens than others.