Singh Ray Color Combo vs. G-n-B Pola vs. Warming Pola

GinnyGinny Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
edited July 13, 2007 in Accessories
Which to buy. I need to buy new filters in 77mm for my new lens set and the lenses I want to rent. Travel and Landscape photography, primarily. I'm very interested in opinions and think the Color Combo is pretty cool.

Thanks in advance!
Tim

www.motorpo-po.smugmug.com

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 12, 2007
    If you use Photoshop or another editing program, you can warm the image
    with that.
    Moderator Journeys/Sports/Big Picture :: Need some help with dgrin?
  • LexLex Registered Users Posts: 262 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2007
    The color combo is very suttle, but realistic. The Blue and Gold can tempt you to overcook things in one color area or the other, however, I own both and use both. Sometimes I love the golden reflection I can create off water with BG, like you enhance the sun's reflective qualities. The blue can become unrealistic on water, but cool. If you hae a mediocre sky, but can't come back to shoot another day, the BG allows you to perhaps pop the sky out a bit more than it would be otherwise.

    Examples?

    I can't seem to find my gold examples on water I wanted to show. have to look tonight.

    Color combo filter is a nice polarizer, it is very suttle and in fact mostly, could probably change saturations in photoshop. But it's less post processing if you can get your images as close to what you want as possible first. That's my take. I like to just go in, set sharpness up a bit typically, check noise level for a single reduct in noise, set color set, adjust to 8 bit and save as JPG.

    Overcooked blue!

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    Blue and Gold sets highlights here

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    Alternately, if you want a REALLY good polarizer, but don't want to spend as much, I have a Heliopan I like well too...
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