Baglan Fence

At Baglan playing fields on a fine summer's afternoon, the fence was photographed as it stood at the time with no interference from me.
The tree shots I took on this day tought me a lesson, "Do not use a polarising filter on a superwide angle lens (28mm and shorter) on 35mm film".
The reason for this is that a these filters will only darken the blue sky when the camera is directed at a certain angle away from the sun, a wide angle lens includes a considerable area of sky and includes the areas that don't polarize well, so you get a very uneven tone across the sky.
This is visible in this photo and in two others I will post shortly.
Location
Near Swansea, South Wales, UK
Equipment Used
Pentax Spotmatic SP, 20mm f2.8 Zeiss Flektogon lens
Exposure
1/60 @ f11
Film & Developer
Kodak HIE, Ilford ID11 dil 1 to 1
Paper & Developer
Ilford Multigrade, Miltigrade Developer
Lens Filter
25a & Polarizer
Very nice IR. I like to lower part with contrasty fence, the bacgroung behind the trees is a bit distractring. Anyway ++ shot. r.
 
Interesting, slightly unsettling framing, I like the HIE effect but, yes, the polariser didn't really work well. Probably can do without it when using HIE+red filter with blue skies.
Post some more!
 

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