Candace
If you ever shoot in B+W, two filters are useful for reducing or eliminating
haze.
One is yellow filter and the other is red filter.
Red filter produces stunning contrasts that make your landscape images look
something like the great Ansel Adam's.....I have a shot downloaded from one
of flickr's users who used the OM-4Ti with red filter and multispot
metering....I'll see if I can hunt it down for you - - - - you can see the
red filter's predictable effect on cloud formations - - - they're
INCREDIBLE. The user didn't mention the use of red filter but experience
tells me it's most definitely it.
K.
On 01/09/06, Candace Lemarr <CandaceRocks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Understood it perfectly...I think :-)
> Thank you for this, it is something that has been troublesome, especially
> around here where we live in a valley. That haze gets stuck and doesn't
> move
> out very often.
> Candace
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "khen lim" <castanet.xiosnetworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:02 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Grand Junction
>
>
> >
> > Candace
> >
> > If a UV or 1B filter doesn't seem to remove the haze, I'd suggest you
> try
> > C-POL, which is also known as CIRC-POL or Circular Polariser. After
> > attaching it to your lens, hold the rim and move it around while looking
> > through the viewfinder to see the varying effect.
> > Polarisers can reduce if not eliminate haze. Technically of course,
> that's
> > not true. What POL filters do is to limit the type of reflected light
> > coming
> > through the lens. Glare caused by haze creates a wall of brightened
> light
> > that behaves as haze. This wall of light is because light is reflecting
> > off
> > the scene in all sorts of angles thus creating that wall I speak of.
> This
> > is
> > not a technical explanation but I'm trying to see how I can simplify the
> > haze phenomenon for you. It's kinda like when you have fog and you try
> to
> > use your car's standard headlights to throw a beam at it - you just see
> a
> > wall of white light in front of you, don't you...
> > Because light is reflecting all over the place, the POL filter will do
> its
> > best to remove as much reflected light and only allow a certain stream
> to
> > come through. Doing this will reduce the effect of that wall of light I
> > was
> > talking about. What you then get are stronger, more saturated colours.
> > In many ways these are the real colours because glare is removed but
> since
> > our eyes are conditioned to see images the way we normally do, we
> > sometimes
> > don't realise the glare that's around. Removing the glare often makes
> our
> > eyes think that the colours are unnatural when in fact, they are the
> ones
> > that are real....
> > Hope that helps. It's kind of a convoluted way to explain it though.....
> > :(
> >
> > K.
> >
> > On 31/08/06, Candace Lemarr <CandaceRocks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Run, Bill, Run!!!
> >> Just kidding. :-))
> >> My husband and I love to laugh at the special people here that drive
> >> their
> >> hummers everywhere. Treehuggers that drive that gas guzzling machine
> half
> >> a
> >> mile to pick up their kids from school...oxymorons, we call 'em. :-D
> >>
> >> I'm all digital, so your film recommendations won't help me much, LOL.
> >> However...that haze can be something else...but the filters you
> referred
> >> to...those would help me? And can be used on the lenses I have for the
> >> E-300
> >> and E-330?
> >> Candace
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
> >> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:16 AM
> >> Subject: [OM] Re: Grand Junction
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >>> I live here, and I still find it difficult to capture the Monument.
> >> Most
> >> >>> days, it's just too hazy, or the sun completely washes out the
> >> >>> colors.
> >> > and,
> >> >> A scene that looks bright and colorful to the eye, will often look
> >> >> washed out to the "eye" of the camera.
> >> >
> >> > I've shot a lot in Colorado, beginning in the early seventies, but
> for
> >> > some
> >> > reason, I've never been to Grand Junction that I can remember.
> Anyway,
> >> > I
> >> > find that Velvia or something like it is highly necessary. The amount
> >> > of
> >> > haze there has increased notably over the years I've been shooting
> >> there.
> >> > I
> >> > read somewhere that, for example, the Four Corners power plant puts
> out
> >> a
> >> > stream of pollution that covers many states, and can be seen from
> >> > space.
> >> > I've not noticed any improvement since Denver started using special
> >> > gasoline.
> >> >
> >> > I also generally use a 1A or 81A filter there.
> >> >
> >> > You aren't driving a Hummer, are you....
> >> >
> >> > Bill Pearce, running for cover
> >> >
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