As written in my previous article there is a strong colourcast over your images when you use your blue/yellow
polarizer. In the beginning, this filter can be hard to get good images of,
your white balance panics when it sees all these unnatural colours. There’s the
colourcast of the filter, and then there are the unnaturally saturated
reflections. Who could blame your white balance.
Now, the solution seems obvious, just turn
to a preset of your camera, as the auto white balance is fooled. Well, there’s
still the colourcast. Normally I just shoot RAW, and worry about correcting the
colours later. The reason for doing so, is because it’s not about the colour
temperature, but about the tint (green/magenta slider). And besides that,
sometimes the colourcast can add something even more unrealistic to your
images.
When I open my images in Capture NX, I go
to the colour correcting dialogue. First I will adjust the green/magenta
slider. I will add somewhere between 2 to 5 (no idea what values to be used in
lightroom/aperture) This will correct for the magenta-ish colourcast. After
that, the image usually still has some issues, and I will decrease the colour
temperature (make it colder) as usually there is still too much red in the
image.
After this, the image will look comparable
to what you actually saw through the filter, but it may take some tweaking for
every image. However I think the results from this filter are more than worth
it.
