For christmas I recieved a circular polarizer lens. Following is a few example shots of just what kind of effect you can get out of this filter. Each was taken back to back, just enough time to change the filter setting. (ie, rotate it a bit)
Focusing on fence with a building backdrop:
reflections off a car window:
sky and shadows:
reflections on the glass of a fishtank:
(note: each of these images should link back to my flickr account. I’m liking the easy management in flickr, though I’m not totally sold on the system yet.)
Yes; you really can see the difference. I especially see the effect on the barbed wire and the fish tank. Very cool.
Just edited the post to make it such that if you click on an image, it opens a larger version on the page. Ok, it is opening it on a div on the page that gets dynamically resized via JavaScript. All done by a tool I’m playing with to get images from flickr easier, though I’ve manually played with the method it uses to get the effect. I’ll stop here lest I make a post on it. (unless ya’ll would be interested in such a thing)