Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] ( OM ) Filters for digital

Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) Filters for digital
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:00:10 -0400
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. 
-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz