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Hermen Pen
{K:9168} 8/4/2004
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Hi Hugo, thanks for showing your example photo. I see what you mean... The sky is even darker than in my image, and so is the green foreground. Maybe this one is a bit underexposed? Do you remember how you measured light? Maybe the in-camera metering system was drawn towards the *very* white wind mill... About the green in my image: although not really vivid, I think the colour is reproduced quite naturally. As far as I can recall it, I have to say - this is not always easy. Maybe your remember my struggle with the image of the dike in Zeeland :) But I am pretty sure that the green was not as lush as the colours we have in Holland in spring time (http://www.usefilm.com/image/155776.html).
But as you suggested already, the only way to get a definitive answer, is to try it out - take the same image with and without polarizer. So I should just do that experiment next time, I'm an experimental physicist after all :) Maybe an idea for a new triptych: one image without polarizer, one with minimum and one with maximum effect.
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Saeed Al Shamsi
{K:47735} 8/4/2004
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Beautiful scene,Designed sky adds great effect to the landscape,low angle of excellent choice,well seen.Saeed
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Peter De Rycke
{K:41212} 8/3/2004
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wow, this sky is just marvellous .. regards, Peter
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 8/3/2004
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Hi Hermen, please see attached photo... It's a very poor scan, and major restauration applied to recreate the blue in the sky. But it shows the same subdued green in the foreground, hence my connection with the polariser... What you describe is exactly what I thought a polariser does, but the images don't show that.
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Hermen Pen
{K:9168} 8/3/2004
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Hugo, what I forgot te tell you - if you say I did not overdo the blue sky, that was just pure luck, because I adjusted the polarizer for maximum darkening :)
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 8/3/2004
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Excellent work. The polarizer worked very well. Don.
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Hermen Pen
{K:9168} 8/3/2004
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Hi Hugo, thank you for your comment! You are right, the green could be a little brighter - but I wonder whether this is indeed due to the polarizer or maybe due to the amount of midtones. Maybe I could pull them up just a tad higher. In my experience, a polarization filter tends to *increase* the detail in e.g. vegetation, because it takes away some of the reflections. But I can not tell for sure in this case, because I did not take any shot *without* polarizer there...
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 8/3/2004
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Hi Hermen, enhancing an already *very* blue sky with a polariser? That will work perfectly. I think you did a good job in not over doing it (Did that once, it came out pitch black.... ) I do find the PL filter does have remove some of the brightness and freshness of the green too. Nice experiment. Did you also take this shot without PL filter? would be nice to see the difference.
Cheers,
Hugo
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Verena Rentrop
{K:15233} 8/3/2004
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strong three dimension impression underlined from the skylines...
great job done
Cheers,
Verena
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