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Dmitry Kondrikov
{K:2} 10/9/2002
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Becky, Greate shot! I like the composition, colors ALOT! Exept the polarizer and/or some warming filters, like 812 or 81A I can't suggest anything fir this conditions :((
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Sue O'S
{K:12878} 10/9/2002
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Hi, Becky! I agree; a polarizing filter would take the blue gloss off the leaf surface. They're pretty cheap at your local camera shop or you could try eBay.
You've beat me to the punch. There's an ivy-covered wall near here that I was waiting to change so I could get a shot similar to what you've captured so wonderfully here.
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Chris Whaley
{K:3844} 10/9/2002
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Very nice Becky.
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Kim Culbert
{K:37013} 10/9/2002
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Love the title, and the image! I have been searching for maple leaves here, but there really aren't any... and I was remembering around the BCIT campus, near res, there are some amazing maples there, with huge leaves. But, you found some great ones!! And did a wonderful job of capturing them! Love the pattern that the leaves make... almost a cascade. Great job!
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/11/2002
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Thanks for the comments and suggestions, everybody. :)
Sue: I understand a polarizer would eliminate the gloss, but wouldn't it make the overall image bluer/colder? I know very little about filters, so I hope you don't mind me asking!
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Sue O'S
{K:12878} 10/14/2002
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Okay, let me explain it as *I* understand it, and then someone with real knowledge will explain polarizing filters as it REALLY is. 8^D
A polarizing lens does not change the color of light, it changing the direction that light hits a photosensitive receptor. In polarizing sunglasses, this would be your eye. With polarizing filters, this would be the film. Glare is light that has been fractured and reflected in disarray. It's highly concentrated with water - you can see that something is making you squint. With a brightly lit sky, the "whiteness" or washout you see is fractured light from water in the atmosphere. A polarizing lens/filter "straightens" out the rays of light and allows true color to come through, whether that be the blue of the sky, the green/grey of a pond bottom or in your case, the lovely red of maple leaves as photosynthesis fades to winter's sleep.
There are two main kinds of polarizing lenses, as I understand it - a straight polarizer and a circular polarizer. The circular polarizer puts a "spin" on the light so that your autofocus camera/camcorder can deal with the changed light. This information is strictly "parroted" from reading on the internet, but what I got from it was "Sue, the P.L. that you buy for the digicam HAS to be a circular polarizer". Other than that, the physics of light were beyond my current comprehension.
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Sue O'S
{K:12878} 10/15/2002
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http://photographytips.com/page.cfm/34
A much better explanation of polarizing filters. Also, the advice of the above site is spend for a *good* P.L.
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/19/2002
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Wow, Sue! You're an awesome wealth of information! Thanks for straigtening me out on polarizers. I thought they were more akin to gels. My sister just bought a camera (a brand new Elan, oooo . . . ) and has decided to donate her old camera and gear to me, including a polarizing filter. I think I'll get a better feel for what they do once I see them in action.
Thanks again for your detailed response! :)
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Greg Summers
{K:1115} 11/14/2002
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I wondered why you wanted to do this without filters - a polarizer wouild eliminatew glare and there are a number of color correction filters avalaible. This is a lovely composition - the leaves feel like a waterfall almost - and I think a polarizer might have been all you needed to make ti pop. I also think increasing the saturation of some of the colors in Photoshop might work - it's mazing how the saturation tool can work to change the color blance - richen some and eliminate color casts.
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Becky V
{K:9699} 11/14/2002
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Thanks for the thoughtful critique, Greg. :) I asked the original question not because I'm a purist, but because I didn't own any filters/polarizers at the time. Now I have a polarizer, and I can't wait to start using it! :)
I'm usually reluctant to use saturation in PS because I tend to oversaturate. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Here, I didn't, but I did add some yellow tones to warm up what was originally a very blue image.
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Toni Martin
{K:5092} 1/19/2003
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Lovely arrangment! Loads of color. The polarizing filter will make the best of any situation. You can control the light and the color.
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