Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro

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Love the sharpness:

Nice shots Willy...love the 2 landscapes...polarizer on those?

grizzy wrote in post #3713803
Nice shots Willy...love the 2 landscapes...polarizer on those?

Doubt it as you cant use a CPL on panoramics very well.

Nick

im gonna say yes a polarizer was used, because the sky shows a slight gradient going sideways.

Also, a cpl really makes the gray bottom of a thunder cloud pop like in #6.

Panoramics shouldnt really be used in conjunction with a CPL, it can lead to all sorts of problems, with the sky changing in colour/exposure as you rotate the camera on the pano head, better to leave them off.

Well hear i'll settle teh argument, no filters used. Picture is as it came out of camera, well apart from the obvious stitching together, and sorting out some of the areas where it needed to be cloned. Ow yeh, i did up the contrast and saturation a little

Cheers all!

willy b wrote in post #3718214
Well hear i'll settle teh argument, no filters used. Picture is as it came out of camera, well apart from the obvious stitching together, and sorting out some of the areas where it needed to be cloned. Ow yeh, i did up the contrast and saturation a little

Cheers all!

Yay! I was right lol

how do u get skies that blue w/o a polarizer! mine arent even that blue with one :S

I love that lens. I need to get out and play with mine more.

Good shots.

e r y k wrote in post #3719178
how do u get skies that blue w/o a polarizer! mine arent even that blue with one :S

Sometimes it depends on the type of day it is, so far ive had nothing but the deepest of blue on my skies & I havent got a CPL yet.

If you shoot raw, try processing the image in DPP twice, adjust the exposure down a little for the sky & select the "Daylight" WB, then the "Landscape" style, your skies will be brilliant blue, then process it again so the foreground is nice, merge both together & voila, perfect results from an otherwise bland sky.

Nick,

Got any before and after examples using this technique? I use Elements to process my raw.

Chris

awesome photos.
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