Today I'm gonna mess around with reflections. I have a few different
filters I can use to adjust things with the D750 and the 20mm f1.8.
This has a polarizer on it at the moment, see how it works.
It's actually working really well. This cheap AmazonBasics polarizer on this
reflection. Ice is good in that case to test things out.
Snow is not quite as good to try things out. I can't really tell if it's making a
difference or not. And this filter, one negative is that it's hard to rotate. The
thread... it's just not a high quality filter.
Just a little rotation and you've got no reflections for the most part.
It's a really nice photo opportunity
here because you've got the leaves on the bottom, and then you have the ice of
course on the top. It's pretty unique and interesting. I'll try to take some actual
artistic photos for a bit... see how it goes.
There are some angles where it doesn't really make much of a big difference. Shooting
definitely straight above. The lights not coming in at angles where it has an
effect. Few other angles, but it is helpful.
Of course its working pretty decently on the lake here as well. It's not as
noticeable as the ice over there. It's really just based on the reflections in this
case. But it does definitely help. Let's go this way.
Don't have one? Start out with the cheap one. This was probably 10 or 15 dollars on
Amazon. Works well enough. Of course it's not really nice. You can't easily change
things out. And the ring is pretty slow. Especially.. especially in this cold if I
can talk properly. But it does work and helps you try things out. Let's keep
going!
The polarizer adds a lot of compositional options to the photos. In this case,
there's a foot imprint. It's really yellow. You can see deeply into it in
this case. At least I can with my eyes. So I can adjust the polarizer to either
have that show up or not show up. I took a few photos of that.
Here's another interesting composition. So I can use my foot in the photo to add a little
interest...
Or I can just put my foot through it! Every few steps I'm seeing new
compositions to take photos of. In this case there's some cross-hatched ice.
Like one of my previous videos, there's some paw tracks in this case. Always a
good composition there.
One good thing to do. What you should do, and I didn't do... is check my settings.
Because I had this on DX mode. From my video with, ahh, that Tamron lens. I had to set
set it to DX mode. So a lot of these photos will be in DX mode. But, it's alright.
Snow in this case is a lot harder to tell when this is doing anything or not.
I do like these pock marks on the ground. Really nice texture to them. But it's hard to
get it a good composition makes it interesting at all, besides the pock
marks...
I don't know if it's cliche at this point, but it really do like the photos
where it takes a picture of the shoes. Kind of gets an interesting perspective.
I don't know it's probably personal preference. I do like them though.
I see some really interesting mud over there. Problem is I have to go over
this thing...
Some type of telephoto probably would have worked a little better to get that
mud in directions it would have, you know, looked a little better I think. It was
still fun to go out there.
Finally got to the lake. Of course, we'll take a few
photos here. After that I will call it a day.
There is definitely a difference. Of course not as much as the ice over there
but it helps a lot.
So that's it for this video. Hope you enjoyed it, on polarizers.
I do think it is an important tool for photographers. You can replicate it in
post a little bit potentially. But it's very easy to just pick up a polarizer
filter. You rotate it when you need to to get reflections or avoid reflections.
Easy enough, saves you a lot of time and good chance you won't even be able to
replicate some of this if it blows out areas of the photo. That said, I really do
like them. I just have this simple basic one. Very cheap and we'll look at
the photos see how they turned out. If you want to go hardcore, of course you
can buy special attachments, high-quality filters. That's up to you. In this
case I just wanted this quick one to work on this specific lens. So we'll see
how the vignetting is and all that. But good enough for the video at least. I'm
Scott from Photography Banzai. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please
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