Polarising Filters - What Are They? Do I Need One?

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Polarising filters attach to camera lenses and reduce reflections and glare, and can improve colour saturation. They can simply make your photos look better. What is not to love, eh? And they don’t cost a lot either.

And I have a couple of these that I absolutely love.

In this episode, I will tell you when, how, and why I use my polarising filters.

So let me tell you all you need to know about polarising filters – how utterly splendid.

All explained in plain English, without the irrelevant detail, in (much) less than 27 (ish) minutes!

What is not to love? How utterly splendid!

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Chapters

1. Polarising Filters - What Are They? Do I Need One? (00:00:00)

2. Hi, and a very warm welcome to Episode 208 of the Photography Explained podcast (00:01:03)

3. What are polarising filters? (00:01:35)

4. What does polarising mean? (00:01:58)

5. How does a circular polarising filter work? (00:03:20)

6. What are Polarising filters made of? (00:05:04)

7. How much light is blocked by a Polarising filter? (00:05:53)

8. How do I attach a Polarising filter to my camera lens? (00:06:16)

9. Are Polarising filters expensive? (00:06:46)

10. What can I do with a circular polarising filter? (00:09:35)

11. Other uses of circular polarising filters. (00:14:16)

12. The problem with using a circular polarising filter (00:18:08)

13. Can’t I do this in post processing? (00:18:42)

14. Do the photos not look fake? (00:19:35)

15. Is using a polarising filter cheating? (00:20:28)

16. And also remember this. (00:21:48)

17. Here’s something for you to do (00:22:20)

18. What if I use a phone to take photos? (00:23:14)

19. What do I do? (00:23:38)

20. Some thoughts from the last episode (00:24:17)

21. Next episode (00:24:36)

22. A quick plug for me and what I do. (00:25:08)

23. Get an email from me. (00:25:51)

24. Ask me a question (00:26:27)