Friday Tip: Colour Boost Your Landscapes With a Polariser

Apart from the UV filters I have screwed to the front of the lenses to protect the front element of these expensive pieces of photographic equipment I have three types of filters in my camera bag.

1. Neutral Density Graduated Filters - Lee 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 soft grad
2. 10x ND Filter - Lee Big Stopper
3. Hoya Pro1 Polariser filter

The polariser is a very useful filter as it performs more than one function.  The main one is it will boost the colour saturation of the landscapes, most noticeably it will boost the saturation of a blue sky.  A polariser also cuts through reflections, such as surface water and car paintwork.  And finally it cuts the light entering the lens by two stops so it can act as a 2x ND filter to allow a slower shutter speed to be used in bright light.

The shot at the top of the page was taken with the X-Pro1 and 14mm f2.8 lens fitted with a polariser.  The shot below is the same scene without the polariser.

Here is another scene taken on the beach near Dunbar, the top shot taken with the polariser and the bottom one without.

There is a great guide to how polarisers work by Peter Bargh on the ephotozone website HERE

Images taking on the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujinon 14mm f2.8 lens

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