[dave]

There's more to using a polariser then just darkening skies though, and most if not all of it isn't replicable unless you turn graphic designer and edit your shot pixel by pixel. Luckily we non 14-24mm shooters don't have to as there's a handy gadget you can buy that does it for you. As a wise man once said, "executed as it should be, in one shot, in the camera". 

[JamesD]

There's more to using a polariser then just darkening skies though, and most if not all of it isn't replicable unless you turn graphic designer and edit your shot pixel by pixel. Luckily we non 14-24mm shooters don't have to as there's a handy gadget you can buy that does it for you. As a wise man once said, "executed as it should be, in one shot, in the camera". 

I'm well aware that there is more to it, and you are 100% right about everything else you said there.
As you said, yes it would be a pain in the arse to actually re-create the effect, but my point was that you could do it should you choose to, and for an experienced re-toucher it would be far from the most complex job they have had to deal with.
Fortunately I do have the luxury of working alongside a pretty decent graphic designer/graphic artist, who can take care of more time consuming stuff such as this if I wanted to do it, since he is much much quicker in photoshop than I am....although he'd probably call me a cunt and just tell me to go back and give him a decent shot to work with
If I had a job where I had to use a polariser, or I would be required to, then i'd probably just hire a lens that can fit one, because as I said I don't really ever have the need for one, doing what I do, I mostly shoot commercial portraiture, wedding and events, a bit of fashion here and there (hopefully a lot more in the near future if things go well), and some corporate work, including a lot of interior bits in the past.
For me the 14-24mm is just such a stunning lens I find it hard to drag myself away from it to use something inferior, just so I have the flexibility to use filters that i'll probably never need?

[dave]

For your uses that lens is ideal, infact its exactly what it was designed for.

[cofe]

I've just realised I could save myself a fortune on filters n stuff by instead just employing a graphic designer on £30k a year. Winner!

[dave]

Crazy amount of egg on your face right now.

[JamesD]

For your uses that lens is ideal, infact its exactly what it was designed for.

Indeed, me thinks that is why I doth love it so, superb Image quality and sublime low levels of distortion that are easily corrected should you have the need, the 24-70mm is almost as good, but not quite....which is a shame.

I've just realised I could save myself a fortune on filters n stuff by instead just employing a graphic designer on £30k a year. Winner!

Luckily I don't have to employ him, he's my business partner and one of my best friends, top bloke to work with and his 3D experience certainly comes in handy, also an excellent web-designer, although ironically he hates working on websites and would rather be out shooting, and working on photo/video stuff.

He's not a bad photographer either, here's something he shot recently for a mate of his, I was assisting for a change!



I did the lighting, and held booms etc.

Shot with the glorious 14-24mm

[dave]

He's not a bad photographer either, here's something he shot recently for a mate of his, I was assisting for a change!



I did the lighting, and held booms etc.

Shot with the glorious 14-24mm

Thats pretty minimalist.

[cofe]

Is that a homeopathic photograph?

[slackline]

Is that a homeopathic photograph?

 

[JamesD]

Is that a homeopathic photograph?

Haha, homeopathic medicine, if its too good to be true......

Anyway, here's a link to the pic, won't embed for some reason?!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=50435005&albumID=3478546&imageID=65820438

A few compression artifacts, but myspaz.com is not exactly known for preserving picture quality!

[dave]

Anyway, here's a link to the pic, won't embed for some reason?!

Aye, you need to embed the jpg url not the entire webpage.

[SA Chris]

A few compression artifacts, but myspaz.com is not exactly known for preserving picture quality!

Or indeed a place where a professional would store photos in the first place

[JamesD]

Aha!



There ya go

[slackline]

Something I wrote might help with embedding pictures 

[JamesD]

A few compression artifacts, but myspaz.com is not exactly known for preserving picture quality!

Or indeed a place where a professional would store photos in the first place

It was a favour for a friend, and its not stored there, its where he chose to display it.

Here is where we display our work: http://www.321collective.com although not much of it is up at the moment as we are re-vamping the site, hopefully all the content will be back up by the end of next week, things have been a bit manic with work lately.

[nic mullin]

clgladiator - the 17-85 canon is a decent lens and a good allrounder on a 1.6 crop camera for bouldering shots (I use mine quite a bit). They also crop up quite often second hand as they come as a kit lens with 30/40/50Ds. 

T_B - I've PM'd you about your boss's lens.