Polarizing In Photography

Suitable filters for weather photography

Landscape photographers use many types of filters, some being very expensive. Luckily, with weather photography you don't need many kinds of filters. Often, only a polarizing filter is sufficient. In fact, a polarizing filter is all I use for my photography, except for photographing the sun, with which I use a neutral density filter.

Filters such as warming filters or gradient filters are little useful for weather photography. Since you don't need to see detail in the foreground at all in weather photos, gradient filters are not required.

One other type of filter that may be useful is a UV filter, simply because it will protect the lens surface from being damaged. But keep in mind that any filter will add extra reflecting surfaces to the optical path through the lens and camera.

Polarizing filters

There are two types of polarizing filter: linear and circular. These filters work the same way in that they filter out light of a certain polarization. A circular polarizing filter is useful for SLR cameras that use a mirror when light metering. A circular polarizing filter consists of a linear filter and a circular polarizer after that, to make the light circularly polarized and therefore its intensity won't change after subsequent reflections. If in doubt which one to use, use a circular polarizing filter.

In this picture the sea has been polarzied you can see the difference as the picture on the left is dark but the on the right is a nice blue.

PLT"s

Today me and Harriet designed some pictures that will fit in well with the PLT's
The 6 PLT's are:
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Independent Inquirer











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Self Manager














Reflective learner

Make-up Skills

We had a day where we got to experiment on your partner skills you have developed on how to achieve a fake black eye. I thought it was really good as we got to try it out, it was hard but i thought the outcome was really good. Here's some pictures we took of the group of the progress we made throughout the lesson.

Introduction to New Project After Easter

We had an Introduction to our new project that we are going to be starting after Easter Trengwainton Gardens and we the opportunity to take pictures of the garden for graphic design project. We took pictures of the flowers and the some other different types of plants. In this project we are required to work alongside local community groups or charities to see if they can assistance us and hopefully use some of our new developed skill in graphic design.

My Poster I Designed For Wet Nose Day

This is the poster i designed for Trengwainton Gardens for the event they are going to have which is called wet nose day.

Budget and Health & Safety

Me,Jibbz,Sam and Joe were in a group and we had to come up a budget and the health safety if we were a makeup team for the next Avatar. We came up with quiet alot of ideas we decided that we would need:

• contact lenses
• blue body paint
• makeup
• facial creams

We said that we would want quiet a decent wage as we are doing alot of work over 10 years so we decided to have 4,000 a week between the 4 of us. For Health and Safety reasons if we were in a hot environment we would need water as the people would get dehydrated.

New Comission- Hair and Beauty

I am now working with Harriet on a Hair and Beauty promotional video. We are excited about this as me and Harriet have always been interested in this subject, so we know the best way to advertise this course. Our three idea are:
1. Promotional video which is including lots of shots of the salons and the beauty part as well. Also me and Harriet are going to be in the video explaining about the course and why we think people should do it. We have already done some of the filming but we now need to edit it and see if we have got enough and good shots of the salons, if not we will go and do some more filming. We thought the video would be a good idea as it can be on a loop on the plasma and we want people to recognise it and sit down and watch it, which I think we will be able to achieve.
2. Leaflets which are going to have information about the course and pictures of the salons inside it. It will also explain what qualifications you will get if you complete the course.