How To Use A Polarising Filter [Photo Biker EP26] 

Good stuff, Mike. I use polarizers quite often. One of my favorite things is to set my Fuji on B&W with red filter and have a go at photographing clouds like that. It produces a dramatic image. However, on a really wide angle lens, there is often not an even effect across the picture. A standard or telephoto lens seem to yield the best results.

I use one a lot Mike with water shots helps reduce the glare on water and gives a longer shutter speed for capturing movement of the water and seeing objects like fish in the water 👍🏻.

Thanks Mike, as always great video and teaching 🎉. Love the location. Recently just watch some old cine film back of my sister and I there in 1976. What a happy coincidence! Take care, looking forward to the next video. 😊

Thanks Mike, very informative, I think we've walked down that path when I was Lighthouse Hunting! just past the little Beaulieu Light in a back garden.

I love to use a polarizer when fall colors come out - also love to pop clouds in the sky-- You do have to watch for areas where the polarizer does not have the same effect as the sky can get very blotchy. Usually a right angle to the sun is best.

Very informative, you are a good teacher Mike, makes learning fun.

Very informative, I had wondered why sometimes I say little to no effect with my polariser, good to get an explanation and more knowledge. The shot of the house you were saying it had no effect on, it was changing the roof of the house, darker and lighter, I guess because the light on the roof wasn't straight.

Another PhotoBiker adventure!! Yes! Love that sunrise Browne! Those dappled clouds! CPL filters even in todays modern cameras are one of the few filters you still should carry in your bag. I still carry ND filters too to blur the water. Browne I love the way you to teach to look at the light. Also love how you focus on the art and creativity and not gear. And YES! No “musts”. Other than must get out and shoot! Great stuff. Someday I want to come to the UK and hopefully meet you. Someday that will happen. Wish the UK was closer to us! Stupid ocean. Lol. Great stuff Mr B! Best wishes from Arizona USA.

08:22 i prefer the first one, without any polarising effect, seems more natural to me, especially the sky and rocks.

One very useful tip you have given in this video sir. Don’t get carried away by the shouting of online people. We have to find out what works for us. Use polarising filter if it’s needed and not because everyone shouted that you must have a polarising filter for landscape photos. As usual very practical teaching and useful tips. Thanks a lot sir. Appreciate your efforts. Thank you so much

Your bikie episodes bring a new dimension to photo shoots ( plus your wonderful way of bringing it all back to simplicity). I do hope that one day I may be able to align a holiday in your country with one of your workshops( I live down under). I have the kase system, but your very important message is that it is not a permanent tool and use it only when needed. That in itself is the lesson.

11:27 Mike you are right. People think their way is the only right way. That what they read in a book is the only way. OR when a guru or teacher/coach tells them something its the only way. This Most things have ground rules,fundamentals we go by..THEN everything else is up for interpretation especially anything art related and ill even say workingout. I say workingout because i workout and sometimes you get people saying "no thats wrong" "you need to do this" "you are gonna get hurt" on and on and on..NO..YOU need to do those things..IM perfectly fine lol..Sometimes rules are meant to be broken or "bent" depending on the person. Thanks Mike always enjoy your videos.

Luv your videos Mike, you take the 'snobbery' out of photography.

great video Mike.👍👍

"Once you have that knowledge, you have it forever" - you have more faith in my memory than I do, I think the filter would outlast it by some considerable time 😂😂😂

Really enjoyed this one Mike. I've never used a Polariser before. I've always known what one does, but never used one. It was also interesting to learn a bit about how the polariser actually works! Thanks.

The most import thing to take away from that for me, is to remember to take the filter off again! So many times I’ve been scratching my head about why I can’t get enough light in to the camera… Great video, thanks Mike.

Great video Mike, always was curious about polarising filters and what to use them for going to get one a give it a go :)

Thanks

@ 10.50+ ; it seems to lessen the effect of sensor dust ;)

youve lost a lot of weight good on you big man

Hi Mike, great vid. I love that location for photography - and my late dog loved walking along that low wall. The Boat House seems to have lost quite some paint recently (the storms, I guess) but that helps make its image more interesting. All down there from Calshot Spit to Lepe and beyond is a pain in the proverbials for still water - one cargo vessel (and, as you'll know there are many) and it's like a tidal wave. I struggle with a polariser - I never seem to have it right but one area I love them is when photographing wet leaves (unless one wants the wet-look, of course). Perhaps you might consider a woodland polariser expedition? I'm sure there must be some woodland near you :) And that brings me onto another request... I have seen your vids in the woods (NewF I think) but woods are very pretty yet very very challenging to photograph. Simon Baxter, Joe Cornish and Adm Gibbs seem to have sussed it but I haven't. Can you do any more woodland-specific vids for all the photographers struggling with woodlands, please? (NB in my case, I'm not too bad at composition; I know the controls; I take multiple exposures bracketed; I sometimes focus-stack; I never seem to see mist, alas - maybe need more tips on how to be more likely to see mist - like your weather-check in this video - but I think a lot maybe in post-processing, too and I don't use Adobe, though I guess most people do). Obviously, I am not asking for a personally-tailored video, just illustrating some of the aspects you may wish to cover, should you decide to do a woodland series, for example. Anyway, as always, thanks so much. Cheers from the middle of your county.

(Alan) I have a number of polarizing filters, and the problem I have is not being able to adjust them with with the lens hood fitted.

Brilliant

Coming up 4 yrs in photography and yet to purchase any type of filter, have there been times i could have used 1, probably and although not expensive in the grand scheme of things would they have been worth me having to just sit around not getting used

Sometimes the good stuff is just infront of sun speciallt the clouds

Mike do you have to compensate for the polarizer like add 1/2 stop or more ? Thanks

Stacking will work i guess

I konw this is stupid but why dose moving the poliarising filter from the front of the lens to between the end of the lens and the body I know the drop in filters that go directley on the body are rotated by a corkscrew mechanisam and so you have much more control on there max point of effectvness and less liability of vibration ....But they do seem to have a much better resault to the photo especialy on a wide angle lens?

I used to like these videos but now, they seem to be about motorcycling with a bit of photography added on. I don't know why Mike thinks that we are remotely interested in motorcycles. I just don't watch him anymore whereas I loved all the early videos which were actually about photography.