Sounds to me like you're spending a lot of money to do what can be done
quickly and free in the digital darkroom.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I asked a while ago if anybody else had noticed that UV driving glasses
> really improve the appearance of clouds in landscapes, and if this indication
> had been acted upon.
>
> I have tried slipping my glasses in front of my DZ lenses, and the result has
> been sufficiently encouraging for me to order a suitable-sized colour
> correction filter to try and simulate the effect using stacked UV and CC
> filters. I already have the UV filter which I have seldom used except as a
> lens protector, but now I am convinced it could really be an image enhancer.
> Clouds get greater detail, are less blown-out, and have more internal
> contrast which makes them more attractive - to my eyes anyway.
>
> In addition, I and a friend from away back were talking about this general
> topic and he came up with another idea which he uses to good effect in a
> specific situation.
>
> Landscape photographers where I live may easily find themselves
> photographing valleys in mountainous places where there is a U-shaped
> valley, a stream below, and rather dark valley sides which go right to the
> top
> of the frame. Often the view is against the sun. Normally, the digital
> camera treatment of this situation is for the bright sky/clouds in the U to
> be
> properly exposed, and the valley sides and floor of the valley including any
> stream, to be grossly underexposed.
>
> My friend Dave has started using a neutral graduated (grad) filter and the
> results are a great improvement in the exposure of the valley floors in
> particular, and a corresponding beneficial darkening of the very bright
> sky/clouds contained in the U of the valley. When I can get a suitable
> adapter ring made for my much neglected AMBICO filter set including boxy
> filter-holder - lens shade, I will try the same.
>
> Brian Swale.
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