The sky at the coast was that gray/overcast/white-out condition that often occurs when the sun is high above the horizon and the last of the fog refuses to fade away. I was taking photos just to get an idea of possible subjects for the next morning---planning ahead. Okay, well, alright---if I'd been planning ahead, I wouldn't have arrived in the middle of the afternoon, when the sun was high in the sky, when the lighting was at its' worst, with an hour and a half drive left, in the dark, on a twisting turning section of Highway One, back to the motel I was staying at and I wouldn't have ended up writing this run on sentence. Sooo, maybe I was behind and planning to not be further behind the next day, but I felt like I was planning ahead.
The two pictures here were taken within 59 seconds of each other, but 180 degrees in opposite directions. There was a polarizing filter on for both of these shots. They're a great example of when a polarizing filter can help and when it can't. There was no blue in the sky that day----the filter brought that out. The photo on the right shows what the sky really looked like. It was the wrong angle and the wrong time of day---the filter can't fix that.When I reviewed these shots, a couple of thoughts occurred to me 1) "That's where I put that filter", and 2) "So that's how it works".
