Clouds appear by polarisation
Posted by Aar in Landscape at May 31st, 2009.
A polarisation filter does a great job getting clouds more pronounced on a photo. In this case, some of the haziness also disappeared:
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Sunny waterfall
Posted by Aar in Wonderful at May 29th, 2009.
This picture of a sunny waterfall was made with a very small aperture (F/27) and relative long exposure time (1/15 sec.). A polarisation filter took away most of the “generic” reflections, keeping the ones inside the water drops…
Full color or just Black and White?
Posted by Aar in Tools 'n Tips at May 29th, 2009.
Below are 2 versions of the same picture: the first one is only scaled without any other processing; the second has additionally been converted to grayscale and sharpened with some additional contrast:
Swallow on the wire
Posted by Aar in Wonderful at May 28th, 2009.
Sitting in a restaurant on the first floor, a swallow came very close, singing a nice song for us…
Cloudy sky over a windy landscape
Posted by Aar in Landscape at May 18th, 2009.
The contrast in this picture has been enhanced to make the effect a bit more dramatic…
Portrait of 2 nuts
Posted by Aar in Wonderful at May 10th, 2009.
This picture is part of a series on old Diesel engines. It is made with a very sharp old manual focus Pentax lens with no additional processing. The idea to convert it to Black & White was dropped since the red line appeared to contribute very much to the feeling of depth in the picture.
