Here’s an interesting one. Photographing through the train window with the late afternoon sun shining from behind created a lot of reflective glare. So naturally I popped on a circular polarizer and got this great (unexpected) effect.
Polarized Rainbow
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I’m not a photographer myself but love to listen in on the jargon of the profession, how you just “popped on a circular polarizer”. I have no idea what that is, but the effect is amazing, I love this image! My crush on power lines (in general) brought me to your blog and this post, I currently have some jewellery ideas cooking, inspired by the wires above the trains, so this post speaks to me in many ways!
I’m so glad you liked it and even more thrilled if it provided inspiration. A circular polarizer is a filter you screw onto the front of your lens and it works just like really good sunglasses to cut down glare by changing the polarity of the light hitting the film (or sensor, in this case). It’s really two filters lying on top of each other and you turn the outer one until the glare goes away. But my camera doesn’t have an optical viewfinder so you can’t really see whether it’s working and in this case I got the beautiful rainbow effect that you’re really not supposed to get (and would be a big problem if, say, this had been a professional shoot for a client).
Thank you for taking your time to explain it all, photography is really an amazing field!
great shot from a train – it’s framed so perfectly with the wires running across the line of buildings and the perpendicular post with numbers.
Thanks!