{"id":158,"date":"2005-05-18T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T23:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-05-18T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T23:51:56","slug":"polarize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/polarize\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good weather is….. well close, if not here yet. This weekend I’m going up north to Bancroft to spend the Victoria Day long-weekend with friends from Markham. With all those photographic opportunities, and the lack of in-doors we’ll have (well, that is, if you don’t count nylon and canvas doors) I thought it would be worth buying a polarizing filter for my camera. So I bought an adapter from my 16mm lens to a 52mm lens and a 52mm POL filter – it means I’m buying a lot more polarized glass, but I can put my fingers all over the outside 15mm!<\/p>\n

As my brother Adam and a co-worker Goldwin have explained it to me (because I don’t know any more than I can Google) a polarizing filter helps take pictures in the sunlight\/outdoors. Specifically, it prevents light prom entering the lens at an angle, accepting only light which comes straight on. The filter should remove unwanted reflections from non-metallic surfaces such as water and glass. It should also enable colours to become more saturated and appear clearer, with better contrast.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t up for a drive down to the lake to experiment with this, but I did stop by a park on the way home from Henry’s.<\/p>\n

Here’s a small gallery for what it’s worth (again, without glass for water subjects). Pictures on the left (the earlier ones) are the non-filtered, the ones on the right (the later ones) have the filter applied.
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Here’s some more info on polarizing filters: www.alienryderflex.com\/polarizer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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