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Yesterday morning I was out at sunrise for some photography, but the overcast light wasn't that impressive. I slipped on my blue/yellow polarizer and got these shots. If you're not familiar with the blue/yellow polarizer, here's how it works:

This filter is a polarizer, but with a difference. Depending on the angle of polarization either the blue or the yellow portion of the spectrum is accentuated, so as you rotate the filter the degree of saturation of these two colours changes. There's no way to really know what the filter's going to do other than to look through it. Even then, depending on the lens used, the light, the film and what one is shooting, the effect can range from downright ugly to quite beautiful.

Canon 20D, 17-85 EFS IS lens, tripod, remote release, Cokin 173 blue/yellow polarizer.

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4)

Which of these three do you think works the best?

5a)

5b)

5c)

 

[aoi tsuki]

It really depends on the purpose of the shot, but i'd say 5b. 5a looks almost like a mountain in clouds, which i'm guessing is just due to a long exposure. 5c just feels a little off, a bit like a dawn shot but with slightly more foreign. 5b feels the most natural.

Nice shots, and ironically i was about to get out this morning at 5a and take some shots with my S40, but getting home at 1a after a long night didn't bode well for this.