[caradoc]

and i agree with caradoc on this: “And anyone shooting digital should have a circular polarizer in their bag – they’re incredibly nice to have around when shooting things like rainbows, or sparkles on snow.” but i would expand it to film also. however i don’t have one that fits my current camera.

I specified digital because film shooters can use either circular or linear polarizers to great effect.

Linear polarizers do Bad Things to digital, typically for TTL metering and occasionally problems with autofocus.

I have both a linear and a circular in my filter bag, because a linear polarizer on the front of a circular polarizer makes for a nifty variable neutral-density filter as long as you don’t mind a weird color cast when approaching totality.

[caradoc]

Hoya’s got a decent reputation. I’ve got a few of their filters.

And anyone shooting digital should have a circular polarizer in their bag – they’re incredibly nice to have around when shooting things like rainbows, or sparkles on snow.

UV filters are pretty much useless for a digital shooter…

I say “save your money and just get the one circular polarizer, and some step-up rings so it fits all of your lenses.”

It’s a lot cheaper to use a 72mm filter on a 52mm-filter-ring-lens with a step-up ring than to buy multiple filters, so just get the filter that fits your largest-diameter lens and rings to match your other lenses.

[caradoc]

i think caradoc and his lightning shots should be excluded so the rest of us might have a chance.

Hey, now!

Look on the bright side – only one of my shots *could* be lightning.

[caradoc]

Apparently I’m not flashy enough for the contest this week.

I gave up worrying about votes a loooong time ago.

De gustibus disputandum non est, an’ a’ o’ that.

[caradoc]

Yeah, I sent a Farkback. Nothing yet. And I’m more peeved about not being able to vote than anything else right now.

[caradoc]

And I get the same g’d error when trying to vote, too.

[caradoc]

I’ve gone so far as to try it from an entirely different computer with a different browser. No dice.

[caradoc]

Thanks, Kestrana!

[caradoc]

Fark’s not letting me post anything at all… Since yesterday, I consistently get:

“You’ve already submitted that form once already.
Please use your browser’s “back” button, and then try to refresh the page
using the navigational controls within the page, instead of using your
browser’s Refresh button.”

…which is really effing annoying.

If anyone feels like posting on-behalf-of, here are the links:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaincaradoc/4786583072/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaincaradoc/4825234215/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaincaradoc/4937000584/

[caradoc]

Just remember you’ll probably be facing caradoc’s amazing lightning pictures, and he’s pretty stiff competition in that arena.

😉

[caradoc]

Actors Theatre of Phoenix is currently in rehearsals for “THIS.”

[caradoc]

Heh. I’ve already been into the hard cider, absinthe, and a couple of other things.

Happy Farking New Year!

[caradoc]

That was pretty much the long and the short of it.

(groan)

[caradoc]

“Learn To Be Latina” has closed – but I did get the production photos last night. More coming.

[caradoc]

And Lily Margo (confirmed – 100% according to the doc) gave us a thumbs-up yesterday:

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