Does anyone actively use the Universal Polarizer when shooting portraits? It'll knock out oily skin glare on cheeks & noses in a heartbeat, but I suspect there's a fine line between softening facial "glow" & losing natural skin tones. Then I wonder/worry about knocking out catch light from a subject's eyes...

I started playing w/ the filter (visually, sans film) a couple days ago w/ different people -- the use is quite obvious, but I'm yet to take it on a serious shoot. I'm cautiously excited & will use the filter over the next month on a trial basis w/ people, but -- does anyone have any "do's & don'ts" of shooting people w/ this filter from experience? Otherwise, I know all the technical stuff about polarizers from using these for a decade--so this is just a portrait-related question only! Thanks...

-- Patrick (pg@patrickgarner.com), February 19, 2002

Answers

I think it will afect the di on a one ligthsource portrait, like under the sun shine, really donīt know what would happen with a reflactor as shadow fill. Iīve read Leibovitz used it (or those) combined with artificial ligthing, I belive it afects mostly her portraitīs foregrounds. Peter Huges shall know more about it.

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), February 19, 2002.