Posted by James H Egbert on February 28, 2007 at 11:29 PM
I wanted to post this to see if I finally have the Whole Dark and Yellow Cast issue fixed. I did note something a few days ago however. I was photographing a snow scene and when i was polarizing the shot I noted a brownish or yellow cast. Now the Polarizer is a Circular Pola and not tinted. I had planned on getting a warming Pola, but now I think not. I wonder if anyone else has seen this type of thing before? I will be ordering a new polarizer soon.
Posted by Bret Edge on February 28, 2007 at 11:55 PM
The colors on this one are WAY better and the dark problem seems resolved. I still see a little yellow color cast but it could be easily corrected (it's very slight).
The first one is much better, James. The second one has more of a color cast and is too dark. Have you considered leaving the polarizer off all together? I rarely ever use one in Moab because it seems to do funky things to the red rock. For that matter, I rarely use one at all, except in scenes with a lot of spectral highlights or moving water.
Good point, I just got so used to using one over the years, in fact the one i have been using is nearly 10 years old and is one I used with film. Digi must not react to it as well as film did.
Question however... when i look at the clouds over Pikes Peak, they appear more white in the second shat than the first. The First is brighter but the cast seems less on my screen. I even used a Color Cast remover in the second one and picked yellow to be removed.
Posted by Brent Murphy on March 1, 2007 at 1:47 AM
My comment would be that you can definitely detect the use of the polarizer by the fact that the sky seems to go from dark to light in the left-right direction, instead of top-bottom. This is one of the main reasons I have limited my use of polarizers in shots of clear skies.
Posted by Mel Ladewig on March 1, 2007 at 10:56 AM
James,
First off, to me these are a good improvement in brightness from your previous examples, especially the first one.
The first shot seems more natural in color even though there is a golden cast on the cloud cap on the mountain. Maybe I feel this way because we can see that the sun is rising. In the second one, the colors are an improvement from previous shots that we've seen, but there is still a little yellow in the snow on the peak. It may be the polarizer, but this one seems a little dark too.
Hi, James. I like the luminosity in the top shot better (and I like it a lot!), and its colors look quite natural on my monitor. But I think you are on to something with the more tightly framed shot that eliminates the tree on the right. However I would not crop quite as tightly as you did in the lower shot. I think the top shot would look great with a square format that is just a little tighter than your lower shot on the left side, identical to it on the right, and includes all the sky at top, and FG down to your copyright at the bottom.
Hi, James. I like the luminosity in the top shot better (and I like it a lot!), and its colors look quite natural on my monitor. But I think you are on to something with the more tightly framed shot that eliminates the tree on the right. However I would not crop quite as tightly as you did in the lower shot. I think the top shot would look great with a square format that is just a little tighter than your lower shot on the left side, identical to it on the right, and includes all the sky at top, and FG down to your copyright at the bottom.
Discussion
9 repliesI see the same "hint" of Yellow and I think it may be due to the Polarizer because I saw it when I took the shot.
Just a suggestion....
Question however... when i look at the clouds over Pikes Peak, they appear more white in the second shat than the first. The First is brighter but the cast seems less on my screen. I even used a Color Cast remover in the second one and picked yellow to be removed.
First off, to me these are a good improvement in brightness from your previous examples, especially the first one.
The first shot seems more natural in color even though there is a golden cast on the cloud cap on the mountain. Maybe I feel this way because we can see that the sun is rising. In the second one, the colors are an improvement from previous shots that we've seen, but there is still a little yellow in the snow on the peak. It may be the polarizer, but this one seems a little dark too.