Photography Explained Podcast
Photography Explained Podcast
Rick McEvoy
Polarising Filters - What Are They? Do I Need One?
28 minutes Posted Jun 6, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Hi, and a very warm welcome to Episode 208 of the Photography Explained podcast
What are polarising filters?
What does polarising mean?
How does a circular polarising filter work?
What are Polarising filters made of?
How much light is blocked by a Polarising filter?
How do I attach a Polarising filter to my camera lens?
Are Polarising filters expensive?
What can I do with a circular polarising filter?
Other uses of circular polarising filters.
The problem with using a circular polarising filter
Can’t I do this in post processing?
Do the photos not look fake?
Is using a polarising filter cheating?
And also remember this.
Here’s something for you to do
What if I use a phone to take photos?
What do I do?
Some thoughts from the last episode
Next episode
A quick plug for me and what I do.
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Send us Fan Mail Polarising filters attach to camera lenses and reduce reflections and glare, and can improve colour saturation. They can simply make your photos look better. What is not to love, eh? And they don’t cost a lot either. And I have a couple of these that I absolutely love. In this episode, I will tell you when, how, and why I use my polarising filters. So let me tell you all you need to know about polarising filters – how utterly splendid. All explained in plain English, without ...