I was walking Oskar in the forest today while it was this awesome weather; sunny with clouds, so there was a constant play of light and shadow moving across the landscape. I got a chance to play some more with my polarizer, and I think am starting to grasp when and what difference it makes in a photo, so that’s nice. One thing I noticed is that the sky needs to be really clear to make the clouds pop. If it is this sort of misty clouds the effect will quickly disappear.
I took several photos which I thought would be good, but most of them turned out mediocre. This is the photo I like the most. It shows a small hill top with white flowers on it. I have tried to frame the photo such that a tree frame it on both sides and the roots of more trees frame the top. This gives a framing and a sort of vignette feel to it.
Unfortunately it is not nearly as sharp and crisp as I would have liked, many of my photos turned out that way today. My best guess is that I wasn’t paying enough attention to my focus when I played with the polarizer. Or move the focus a bit when adjusting the polarizer. I will have to look into that later, so it wont happen again…
One nice thing is that the polarizer really saturates the colours and give a green which is much closer to how it felt like with the forest floor all covered in these fresh flower leaves.
/Kristian