How to improve the color saturation of photos when shooting?

Using polarizing filter can restore the details in highlights and increase the color saturation. Tell you how to use it correctly through three steps.

Polarizing filters (polarizers) are very useful. If you don't have a polarizer, you can consider buying it. Unlike other filters, it is difficult to simulate the effects created by polarization filters in Photoshop.

Polarizing filter absorbs light reflected from nonmetallic surface and can be used in completely different shooting environments. Polarizers are particularly effective in shooting glass and water because they allow you to "see" through its thickness.

In addition, in landscape photography with polarizers, you can enhance the "blue" of the sky and highlight the thick clouds in its background. Its ability to "cut off" some light leads to an increase in color saturation and vibration. The latter feature is particularly useful when photographing leaves.

The effect produced by polarizing filter is hardly obvious, especially when shooting in cloudy sky. But comparing the two pictures, one with polarizer and the other without polarizer, the difference is very obvious.

The leaves of most plants and trees have natural luster, which can "blur" the green color in photos. Wearing a polarizing filter will reduce the influence of light emission and make the flowers picturesque.

How to Saturate Color with Polarizing Filter

What do we need?

Polarizing filters come in two forms: flat and round, and are mounted on the lens with special brackets. The latter is the most common. They have various sizes and are installed in front of the front lens of the lens through a threaded connection with a certain diameter. If there is only one filter, please choose the filter suitable for most lens sizes.

How to use it?

The effect produced by the polarizer depends on the angle between the surface of the filter and the reflective surface of the object. An angle of 35 degrees is most suitable for reducing water reflection. When shooting the sky, the sun should be at right angles to the subject. After selecting the angle, rotate the outer ring of the filter until the reflection disappears and the color reaches the maximum saturation.

Pay attention to the control effect of the converter and observe what happens in the viewfinder.

Polarization filters reduce the intensity of light beams passing through them by about 2 EV. For example, if a normally exposed frame is obtained with a shutter speed equal to 1 1 25 seconds and an aperture value equal to11,the shutter speed must be extended to 1/30 seconds when a polarizing filter is installed. In automatic mode, such as aperture priority mode ("Av" or "A"), the camera will change the shutter speed. In manual mode ("M"), you must do it yourself.