On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>> I once disparaged the lowly PL for just this reason and was duly
>> thrashed by Doris of Early OM List Fame. She suggested shooting
>> brackets with varying degrees of the PL effect. That has been good
>> advice for me and favorably changed my practice in using a PL with a
>> wide. Also if you shoot the occasional vertical with an extra wide,
>> the variation will not be as great as when shooting horizontal, so you
>> might miss it especially in those circumstances.
>>
>> I like the photo you posted a lot. It looks like it would be about
>> perfect with the polarizing effect scaled back just a tad a la Doris.
>
> Thanx! I try to remind myself to use the PL so that it's not at max,
> but my fingers do not listen to me and almost always max it out. On
> the few occasions when I've used less than max, I've liked the result.
> Sigh.
It's terribly hard not to push it all the way. I always have to
remind myself to try another one scaled back from the max just for
comparison's sake later when I get them up on the Pooter. (Also,
nothing in your photo that can't be fixed with a wee bit of PS...)
Joel W.
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