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oh no - check this out....... http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=1749325

one more thing to add here.........which I apologise for not mentioning earlier......when I had the polly in the filter holder on it's own ....whsilt looking through the camera I noticed that the darker area of the polly only appeared to darken part of the sky even after successive rotations, it...

90 degrees = I was facing the Mill and if that direction was 12oclock then the sun was at 3 oclock! also, what has cropping got to do with anything?.....the patches were there before and after a slight crop! why is cropping relevant?

camera strap across the lens?. no, sorry ....it was well out of the way. so finally......i have anultra wide angle lens, xpro filters that definately cope without vignetting. Ahhh, hang on.......aren't polarisors made up of TWO surfaces? if so, if these aren't aligned properly - maybe that's the...

I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with the ultra wide angle lens. Xpro filters are the largest cokin filters and do not present any issues with vignetting etc . You've got to admit, it does look odd though!

(hope this is right) does this help (below)

Hi Folks. I bought a circ polly a few months ago and only just had chance to use it earlier today. I took some test shots of Chesterton Mill (near Harbury). I use Pentax K10D, sigma 10-20mm, Cokin XPro filters etc. I shot at 90 degrees with the polly and a 3stop ND Grad. I adjusted the polly to...

Sorry if this post is in the wrong place but I really do need help here. I bought my copy (legitimately) of photoshop cs3 ages ago and have had no problems with post-processing, panaromics or creating hdrs etc ...until now! for some inexplicable reason cs3 will not now producr hdr merged images...

I have been experimenting taking shots of jewellery which I have found quite challenging, getting the lighting right etc. I more or less got there but I have noticed that the actual gemstone isn't quite sharp due to the light getting bounced away etc. apparently cameras find gems quite awkward...

I had a crack at this but i have found that using the magic wand etc the areas that get selected tend to 'bleed' onto the ring in some parts. obviously, the tones are very similar if not the same. Is there a way, after the magic wand initial selection to cut back the selected areas on the ring ...

A friend of mine asked if I would help photograph some jewellery using his lightcube, 5kW daylight bulbs etc. Before embarking on this project I read several articles to get a good understanding of how to do it. Even though I got decent photos I found myself facing a problem, similar to that of...

I hope someone can help me with this. I have created a vertical pano of the inside of a church, under fairly good lighting conditions etc. the window spaces are down the one side of teh shot, somewhat out of shot. pano = just imagine looking all the way down the aisle (congregation seating on...

so, from what Grendel has just mentioned I can assess this as follows take the two shots at the correct exposure levels to begin with so that any modifications done in software afterwards are minimal and thus are not likely to need a lot of work, ie shouldn't spoil the shots as a result...

ok. even with the use of filters, such as ND, is it likely that (not only in the garden scenario) the exposure level differences would be so great between the shadow and the sunlit areas, that filters would cope? I mean , if you were out in the Peak District (or similar) on a clear, very hot...

Here's a classic scenario for a beginner, such as me, to overcome assume that I have a view of a long garden, ie grass, flowers etc. All down the one side there is a 6ft fence and it is very sunny. The fence casts a strong, dark shadow all down the garden, threst of course is bathed in...