I reached for what I thought was the 5-stop ND but put on the Gold-N-Blue over the B+W F-PRO MRC Käsemann Circular Polarizer by mistake instead. At first the result was way too yellow (see second image in comment below) but as I slowly turned the Gold-N-Blue started seeing results that I liked - another lucky accident! For some reason the Circular Polarizer simply intensified the colors, did not vary the opacity as it normally does when you put two polarizers together.
So next time you need some spectacular sunrise or sunset color and can't wait for dust from some volcano to fill the upper atmosphere reach for the GnB and your CPL. :-)
Soak in the color, view large on black. N14324
Note - saturation seen here is from the filters not Photoshop or LIghtroom.
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tyaygotib 17 months ago | reply
很漂亮
victorvonsalza 17 months ago | reply
Thanks tyaygotib.
Fabio Catapane - Fabbricante di Nuvole 14 months ago | reply
Thank for sharing this shots with us Victor! They are exactly what I was looking for over the web: the combined use of a normal CPL with a gold'n'blue one.
The results seems to be very intresting... what about the loss of light? How many stops this filter combination gives?
victorvonsalza 14 months ago | reply
There's about 2.5-3.0 stops (depending on how the filters are rotated) between the lens with no filters and the two filters together as measured using the D300 spot meter with halogen light illuminating a blank white door in my home. The difference maybe greater when pointed at some blue sky or a polarized reflective surface depending the angle of the camera relative to sun/light source and reflective surface. Note also that not all CPLs block the same amount of light, so these measurements apply to just the two filters listed in the description/tags above.