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Lighting Contrast / 6.8 - Polarizing Filter

One use for a Polarizing filter is too darken bright skies on sunny days.

The photograph to the left is the average exposure from an earlier section.

Again, by averaging the bright and dark parts of the scene, neither the trees or the sky look as good as they could.

In the right-hand photograph, I revolved a Polarizing filter for maximum effect.

The filter reduced the contrast between the sky and trees.