Polarising Filter

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I've just got my new 550D and also bought a Polarising filter to experiment with. I really can't make up my mind which of these two images I prefer. They're both unprocessed (shot in RAW) files, apart from lens corrections in Lightroom. The second image is taken with the polarising filter rotated for maximum effect. Can someone explain why it looks surreal? It makes the first image look very amateurish by comparison but there is still quite a 'processed' look to it - or perhaps it's because I'm not used to dealing with this sort of equipment?

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Once again thank you very much for the advice on both the 550d and various lenses, really grateful to you guys. I'm definitely going to get a wide-angle lens this was taken at 18mm and the view is absolutely stunning yet I can't get any where near enough of it in the image!
 
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a CPL sits on my lenses all the time when outside. What you have shwon demonstartes the value of a CPL, not only do you have a depp blue sky, but you have deeper greens and overal much more contrast and vibrant colours.

You can over do the effect, so it is worth learning not to always go to the maximum strength.

Be careful if you get an utra wide angle (UWA) lens: the polarisation becomes very non-uniform across they sky.

Also, UWA are incredibly difficult to use to get pleasing compositions. Make sure you get foreground, midground and far ground features on the composition.
 
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D.P. said:
a CPL sits on my lenses all the time when outside. What you have shwon demonstartes the value of a CPL, not only do you have a depp blue sky, but you have deeper greens and overal much more contrast and vibrant colours.

You can over do the effect, so it is worth learning not to always go to the maximum strength.

Be careful if you get an utra wide angle (UWA) lens: the polarisation becomes very non-uniform across they sky.

Also, UWA are incredibly difficult to use to get pleasing compositions. Make sure you get foreground, midground and far ground features on the composition.
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Is this why in the shot above to the right hand side the sky looks slightly odd?
 
This might go against popular opinion, but I don't use CP for sky shots any more.
The shots I've seen always look like shot two.

I think you're best using one for shots that don't include the sky (or small amounts of sky).
 
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