Is it just me, or is this still, after five years, one of the most instructive videos on polarizers and their uses in digital photography? Attests to the quality of your content, Steve.

@vladimirivanov6353

4 жыл бұрын

i am amateur photographer and i have two polarizer filters...this lesson is the best...stive dont tolk about long exposure 4 stop ,even 10 stop ND...ANY filters you lost quality...

@HelmCast

4 жыл бұрын

in 2020 it still works fine :)

@aussie8114

3 жыл бұрын

Steve is timeless

@xoceingo

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I also find it humorous!

@tonyburford421

2 жыл бұрын

Very informative vid. I’ve just bought a Hoya pro1 and was looking for info to get the very best out of it, this vid ticks that box perfectly.

OMG! I have watched so many videos about this and been left more confused than when I started, usually with a new list of jargon to bust. So many churn out “90 degrees to the sun” without actually demonstrating what this means and what to do if there’s no sun. Who knew an 8 year old vid would answer all my questions and some I hadn’t thought of - rainbows. Wow, thank you so much. 10.5 minutes well spent. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

8yrs on and it's the best video I've watched on CPL

Thank you Steve, that was the most comprehensive tutorial on how to and where to use a polarizing filter I have seen. Great job mate.

Hi Steve ... I am an avid amateur and I have to say this was easily the best and most informative video on polarizers I have ever seen. Thank you for your time and effort ... I certainly appreciate it.

Steve, I'm an experienced semi-pro photographer with a billion years of experience and enjoy watching your videos immensely. You're precise, informative and on target with everything you say. Those who pay attention to you and follow you have to benefit. Keep up the good work! :)

I just bought the filter after reading articles about it. I used it for several hours and noticed a difference in my photos already. I love how the filter effectively diminishes reflections. Not to mention, I can take a photo of my laptop screen now (LOL). Saturation increased, indeed. Awesome video! I find it very helpful as a beginner user.

Steve, you consistently make some of the best photography videos anywhere on KZread... no small feat. Thanks for making this!

This video is forever as today is the 19/11/2023 and it still offers very valuable information. Thank you so much, Steve 👍🙏👍🙏

Thank you very much for this video, now I have more information what to buy!

Easily the most comprehensive but easy to follow tutorial/description on a polarizer. Thank you!

Best educational video on polarizing filters on YT. Thanks!

This is the most informative and illustrative lesson on polarizers I've found so far. Great work!

Check out my new video - How To Use A Polarizer. (hint - there's more to it than just blue skies).

@kamatchinmay

6 жыл бұрын

Love your videos man. Great tips. You know just about everything about everything to do with photography.

Straight and to the point, zero BS that's what we always get from Steve 👍👍

I love your videos and how much time you spend explaining it so well. Great video. Sometimes I need a refresher on simple photography techniques! :)

Man I love your channel. You're soooo thorough and knowledgeable. You know exactly what you want to say and you say everything worth saying more concisely than anyone else I know

What a hell of work! You are so amazing. Hope to see more of your works.

Man am I'm glad I found your channel. You shoot the backwoods I love to trek. Except now I have a camera and am learning to use it. Your vids are helping me a LOT. Thank you! I will be looking for your book.

This was the most thorough overview of polarizers and the different ways to use them I've come across. Great job, thanks!

As a photography "newbie", your You Tube filled in so many questions with easy to understand answers regarding circular polarizers, and their usage! Thanks.

Gosh, thank you Steve...I've never used my filter for anything except sky! So much of my photography is done in Australia's outback so big blue skies are not much of a problem and don't often require enhancing. I've never considered using it on reflections or to bring out details etc. The way you demonstrate effects is terrific. A very useful video, thank you.

Hey Steve, just wanted to say great video! You answer all the questions one may have about polarising filters. Very informative video, well structured, easy to follow... Thanks mate!

This may have been the most helpful photo video I’ve watched in years. Thanks, Steve!

This was the most thorough and useful video on the subject on KZread. Thanks for all the tips.

First time viewer here. I really enjoyed this video. Very well done and useful too! Thanks so much. Subscribed!

Very well done! What you packed in the ~10 minutes with our your style was just perfect.

I needed this video today. Thanks for the detailed explanation on CPLs, especially the difference between thin and thicker polarizers.

Thanks for taking the time to make the video and explain different settings with real life scenarios. Cheers Steve!

I really liked this video! I am a novice when it comes to DSLR cameras, and purchased a cheap plastic polarizer for my camera. After not getting the effect I was hoping for, I turned to the internet for help. This video helped me understand the uses MUCH better, and I will definitely be buying a higher quality filter! Thank you!

Wow Steve....what an excellent job of explaining everything about polarizers. Thanks !

Hi Steve! Excellent video. I too have been using polarisers for around 30 years but there is one thing I use them for which might raise an eyebrow or two. (I'm also a pro shooter.) Portraiture. A lot of the time when I'm shooting women, I will add a polariser to cut down the tiny specular highlights in human skin. Almost everyone has them. I have only ever seen one person with what I called perfect skin. For everyone else, those specular highlights can come from skin blemishes and in a lot of cases, makeup. I find that a polariser flattens and soften these things and most of the time people don't even know why they like one shot better than another. I definitely agree with your point about exposure. I think of it as improving latitude. It's essential for cutting down the hot spots in a background which can make the difference between being able to get a decent shot and not getting it. The polariser is the only filter in my kit. Unfortunately, the one I use - a Canon - costs about $900. Fortunately, it's owned by my employer! Loved your sharpening tute BTW!

@backcountrygallery

10 жыл бұрын

Awesome tip! Thanks for taking the time to post it. I don't do portraits anymore, but that would be a fantastic idea.

Best Photography video I've watched so far. Instructional, to the point, organized, wish I could give 2 thumbs up. excellent. Thank you !

Great video. Very clear and informative! Thank you very much for sharing.

This is a great video. Really appreciate the clean & informative format of your tutorial. Thanks!

This was well presented and immaculately thought out. Thank you for all the information!

+Steve Perry I've only watched 3 videos including this one and I love the info. I started on film about 21 or so years ago, I love the convenience of digital. As a teen, I had to spend a lot of money to shoot, today one card gets me tons of photos. I am very happy to see a real photographer on KZread. So many of the digital folks depend too much on their equipment instead of developing their skills. I am glad ti hear you mention the 90 degree thing for circular polarizers, most people aren't aware of that. I use it to make the image warmer on a cloudy day, when I do fine art making the sky really dark, or black as you stated, actually works better as I usually turn fine art shots into black and white and the black sky makes it extremely dramatic. These are personal preferences, I am not stating you are incorrect or anything like that. My years of experience and of course anyone who has been doing photography for a long time usually know these things, however, this brings me back to my original point that it is great to see a great photographer giving good and thorough advice.

@bertolson8902

5 жыл бұрын

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Fantastic video, you covered every aspect of using polarization in one video, all the other videos were focused on just one application. I'll watch this again whenever I need a refresher on the subject. Thanks!

Great video, thanks so much!

Best video i have seen on Polarizing filters.Thank you Steve for delivering it.

Thank you Steve. Excellent video with great advice and examples. I'm all done searching for CPL tutorials. This answered all the questions! Subscribed!

Thanks, Steve ! I wish I would have seen this before my recent vacation. My pictures were mostly on a waterfall and plants. I had a polarizing filter in my bag because I did not know how helpful it would have been. Photography is a continuing education hobby!

Enjoyed your video. Thank you for taking the time and creating this. Some beautiful photos you have there as well!

Glad I found this! It really helped me understand how to better use my gear! Thanks! Great delivery as well!

I've struggled to get good results with a polarizer and red an awful lot of articles. This was the best 10 minutes I've spent in terms of understanding how to get good results with a polarizer. Can't wait to try these techniques out!

Fantastic video Steve, I learnt so much I didn't know about my polarizing filter! Can't wait to go try some of it out. Thanks. 🙂

A photography video that spends all it's time giving you tips and useful information instead of trying to sell things!?! Subscribed.

Amazing, it's summer 2018 and I just subscribed to your channel because of this video. That proves how good it was. Thanks a lot!!!

Amazing content on your channel Steve! I just found you on the web. Thank you from Uruguay, and keep up the exelent work!

The best CPL video on YT, congrats!

Seven years old advice is still relevant. Just the info I needed. Thanks!

Easily the best tutorials out there. I appreciate the effort you made you create these

Very straightforward and educational. Thank you.

Hi Steve, Very informative and well-structured video. Thank you!

liked the way the whole mechanism has been explained...thanks a lot for sharing! It was really helpful

I've seen quite a bit of material on polarizers now and these are some of the most compelling examples I've seen yet. Very useful video. Thanks for sharing it

Thanks Steve, great info.Was confused between CPL or Linear. Sticking with CPL.

This is very useful, I am learning so much about how my camera works thanks to you and your great videos. I can't wait to get out there and take some new photos armed with all this info, thank you!

Excellent video, very informative, no beating around the bush, excellent sample shots to illustrate your points. You got yourself a subscriber.

Thank you so much for the video, this clears things out and saves me time from reading tons of articles online.

Very complete tutorial! Thank you!

Excellent video with lots of tips for using the filter. Thank you!

Great video. As a beginning dslr user I purchased a polarizer on the camera shops recommendation. Now I feel better versed on how to use it. Thanks so much.

Great video, Steve. This really gave me so much to think about and I'm now on the hunt for a polariser for my lenses. Subscribed!

Thanks for sharing this wonderful video on polarizing filter. Best video on the subject.

Thanks Steve - again a very useful video. Also I've just purchased the Nikon D7500 based on your video - and thanks again for that !

Excellent tutorial for us beginners learning about polarizer filters. Thank you much 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Excellent explanations. Thanks for the very informative video!

really appreciate this! super thorough and clear. thank you.

Thank you for these very helpful tips. Your thoughtful comments removed the glare of confusion from when, where and why to use a polarizing filter. Now, I just need to find one for a Sigma 14-24 art lens.

Great video Steve. It helps allot. I went and bought a sunpak circular polarizing filter and it is awesome. I actually had the opportunity to be able to test it on a rainbow and experimented with the settings. It is amazing how much color it allowed me to capture. thank you so much for you video.

Another Superb Training Video... Thank You, Steve !!!

A video prepared with labor. Thank you very much.

As usual, Steve explains the key issues clearly and makes total sense - unlike so many would-be instructors out there...

Love you videos. They are always so to the point easily explained, even for dummies like me!

Great video. Have definitely subscribed to your channel now. You answered all the questions I had and some. Thank you so much.

This is great information Steve, thanks a lot for such a detailed discussion on the filter

This was a great presentation. I like polarization filters for water shots but you have pointed the way to so much more!!

Excellent video. Very helpful, as always. Many thanks

Great tips with samples and explanation, cheers mate!

Awesome Tutorial....Thanks! Amazing how much I had forgotten.

thank you for this. This was fantastically useful as it directly solves an issue im having with reflection

Thought about buying one. Now i am sold on it. Thanks a lot.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! I just got into photography and am going to the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC this weekend. I'm renting a 17-28mm 2.8 lens for my sony a7iii but I don't have any filters yet. So I'm buying a cpl! Thank you so much for this.

I saw about 7 CPL tutorail videos, this was the best, great examples and tips, thanks!

Awesome job my friend. Fantastic work and a massive help. Keep up the sterling performance.

THE FINGER POINT....genius!! Holy crap, thanks for teaching this 'ol dog a new trick!!!

Great tips! Will definitely use the info for my next shoot. Recently purchased a polarizer and can't wait to put it to use.

Thx just purchased a filter can’t wait to have ago great tips

A very instructive video on the use of the polarizer. Very entertaining too. Many thanks.

Great intro to polarizers, and thanks for all the encouragement and videos! Keep it up...

Wow. You just answered every question I had initially about this lens. Thank you so much for posting this video. Like 10 things I wanted to know and let me tell you. When I saw your overcast rainy day segment? It left my jaw on the floor and butterflies in my stomach....I live in northern nh in the white mountains....I always dreaded rainy days but your video changed alllll of that. The Flume, Lost River, Kancamagus Highway, Echo Lake there are a ton of rivers and mtn views!! As you know there is no foliage season like The White Mountain National Forest in NH. Liked and subscribed I look forward to watching your other videos as you get right to the point and it's simple so I can understand. Cheers :)

Great info, well produced and presented. Thank you.

Excellent video Steve, thank you. No beating about he bush, straight to the point. Subscribed.

Fantastic video! This answered all my questions.

Nicely done, all the info I needed in one place. Thanks!

Best video on Polarizer ... Thanks Steve !! Great job ...

Thanks.Good video with concise and important tips

Thank you so much just bought my first polorizer this helped allot..

Right to the point! Great video! Thanks!