First. Sorry for the long radio silence. I took a few weeks off work, and spent them doing duck all. No, really. I demolished some stuff, I played some games I even slept a little. But the one thing I wanted to do was snap and the one thing I didn’t do was snap.
Except for one day in Donegal (Nope, still not being sponsored by the Donegal Tourist Board!).
It was kind of a family weekend, so a lot of family shots, which means you won’t see ‘em here – sorry.
That said…..
I own a polarizing lens. So I took it out to take this shot. Here’s kind of a before and after (or my attempt at one).
Ignore the digger. It was a picture I took for my mother in law as she’s about to lose this view in favour of someones house. (Remember what I said about over population in Donegal?).
I don’t think I was using the polarizing lens quite right. The left hand side of the sky looks great, but it fades out as you move right. If you’ve an idea where I’m going wrong, let me know!
September 11, 2007 at 12:13 pm |
You have done better than me, I got a circular polarizer for my old 35mm once, I put my camera on a tripod and took about 12 photos all with the filter at different positions around its 360 degree travel. I couldn’t see any different at all between the photos.
I don’t think I ever used it again.
Of course with the wonderful world of digital you can take about 1000 test shots until you get it right. This is where I start to grumble about, you could do that in my day…time to go get my slippers and pipe.
Stu
September 12, 2007 at 12:12 am |
It depends on where the sun is, if the sun is on the right hand side of the photo this will have an effect. The time of day is also important, when the sun is high, the light is too strong for the polariser to work.
A polariser is not just for beautiful blue skies, you can take the reflections off lakes or off windows/glass…