If you’ve been visiting this blog for a while, you would have read about the freestyle, polariser filter abuse on my camera.
Little do you know, but I haven’t used one for a few years now. Since switching to full frame, I always use a lens hood and as anyone has tried, altering the polariser is a little annoying when the hood is on. So, although I still carry one in my pack, I rarely screw it on.
I guess the ability to recreate a polariser effect of cutting glare, within a computer program from the comfort of my armchair, means they’re not needed so much any more. Yeah yeah, I know, ‘best to do it in camera than back home on the computer’, but ease of use comes into it. As it is, I think most of my photography is a series of compromises.
Anyway, the vivid blue sky in this photo is sans polariser and really, it looks more or less the same if one was on.
Oh, I almost forgot. I gave it up for a while, as I lost one on a walk once. Yeah, I’ll write about that stroll one day, as I actually re-did, just to find the polariser.
Guess what? I didn’t.
Nice! Vivid blue, some gorgeous clouds and a soft brown tree skeleton. Simple but beautiful. We do get some glorious skies in our country. 🙂
Once I see wispy clouds like these in a blue sky, it's a cinch to get a shot. I've always liked bare tree branches to off-set the blueness 🙂
Polarisers and lens hoods seem to be designed by 2 different teams who have different aims and no interest in ensuring a working relationship. The result in your photo without a polariser is ideal in my view. Yes I have rewalkd a trip to locate pegs (with success) still got one to do to locate some bright orange pegs. The area is nice no matter what the result will be.
Yeah, especially with the 24-105 lens. The hood is large and any polariser adjustment is quite annoying. I've done it, but usually find my fingers end up hitting the lens itself, leaving sweaty smearing!
Lost pegs are worth rewalking for. I redid a walk for a hat and was successful, so I thought a lost polariser would have a good chance of success, as I knew roughly where I lost it. I even returned the following day, but alas, no good.