Flower Photography- Shutter,Aperture and Polarizing Filters

Hello my friends. I hope you are all staying cool. The heat is outrageous! I found out exactly how much shade helps when I was in the Birmingham Botanical 's Rose Garden Saturday. I was inspired by my new polarizer (B&W) to learn and push its limits to get more familiar.
I decided to take this time to show you how much a polarizer helps when doing outdoor photography in extreme light. The most common polarization happens with a circular polarizing filter for photography  allows the light to be filtered lineraly. It's best effect is to reduce glare from non metallic reflecting surfaces, such as glass and water. It also helps to darken blue skies and contrast the clouds in them.
In these photos you will see the difference in polarization. I was able to polarize certain exposures and add a reflecting light source to illuminate the subject. It was a great day for me to go and photograph surrounded by such a beautiful landscaped garden.

You can see the clouds and sky in this polarized shot is darker and not over exposed if I didnt have the polarizer, It also cut out the water's glare on the columns.

1/20 f.16 ISO 200 with out Polarization, you can see the clouds reflecting in the water,

 1/13 f.16 ISO 200 with Polarizing Filter. You can see how the reflections from the clouds seems less harsh and the water becomes darker.

              1/10 f.16 ISO 100 with Polarizing Filter and Gold Reflector using Tripod

                           1/10 f.16 ISO 100 with Polarizer and Silver Reflector to show you how color temperature does make a difference in colors.

                                         

1/30 f.16 ISO 100 No polarization

         1/30 f.16 ISO 100 with Polarization. You see the clouds' relfection dissipate with the ability to see into the water.

1/30 f.16 ISO 100 With Polarization and to light the left side of the photo, I applied the Gold Reflector , also making the lilly pads color change.

                                                                 

1/8 f.16 ISO 100 With Out Polarization

     1/8 f.16 ISO 100 with Polarization                                                                        

1/125 f.16 ISO 100 with Polarization and Gold Reflector, see the color on the leaves change?

     1/1000 f.16 ISO 100 Polarizer with Gold reflector, Changing the shutter speed to control light.  

Radial Blur! Just for fun. 6 sec shutter f.32 ISO 100 Polarization with Gold Reflector to light the shadows on the ground and around the leaves. During exposure and on tripod set up, I zoomed my lens out during the open shutter, while dropping my Aperture to control the light.

1/6 f 32 ISO 100 Polarization with gold relfector to show you that the first exposure was not a mistake. Radial Blur is a preference and there are many who think if the photo isnt crystal clear its a mistake. Some blur is intential like in the exposure above.

Thank you all for your continued support. Thanks for reading!