If you take a large amount of outdoor pictures, you may want to look into purchasing a polarizing filter for the camera. These filters work on both standard and digital cameras and can turn your ordinary image into something much more worthwhile. By design, the filter can eliminate glare in an image, plus it also acts as an additional layer of protection over your valuable and expensive lens glass.
Instructions
1. Screw in the polarizing filter onto the camera's lens. Make sure the filter is the appropriate size for your camera lens before you buy it.
2. Point and take pictures of water and other objects that tend to give off reflections. The filter can reduce or completely remove the reflections given off by the water or other objects. This can be useful if you are taking a picture of water and want to show how crystal clear it is, not what all the buildings around it look like.
3. Position the individual you want the picture of with the sun either directly behind you (the camera) or to the side. You do not want the sun in front of you. Even with the polarizing filter installed, your picture is going to be washed out. If the sun is directly behind you and it is too bright for your subject, have a helper use an object to block out or soften the sun from his view.
4. Allow there to be plenty of sky and color around your outdoor portrait individual. With the polarizing filter in place, the blue skies are going to look much more vibrant as are the colors of the objects around the person.
5. Experiment with a few pictures before you take your portrait pictures. If you have a digital camera you can take the picture and view it immediately; however, if you are using a non-digital camera, test a few picture locations with the polarizing filter to make sure it is going to look good.
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