Items lost in the field

[John_SD]

Well, **bleep**, I "lost" a circular polarizing filter in the field yesterday morning. What's worse is that I wasted an hour of good eary-morning light by the lakeside retracing my steps trying to find it, to no avail. It was a 67mm Tiffen, the first polarizing filter I bought for my Canon 18-135 STM lens. Inexpensive, but better than you might think, and certainly better than nothing. Better than losing the B+W.

I believe I had it screwed in securely, but must have loosened it as I turned the filter here and there while shooting. 

I believe this is a first for me. I consoled myself by recalling a conversation I had with a guy once who "lost" a ReallyRightStuff tripod. He was at the edge of the woods and had been shooting for a half-hour or so, and decided to take his camera off the tripod and go into the woods itself for a "couple minutes" to shoot there. When he returned about an hour later, the tripod was gone. I have a feeling he paid a bit more than $29.99 for that tripod LOL. But still...it sucks to lose items in the field. 

[ebiggs1]

[Waddizzle]

"I've never used a Clear filter, as it doesn't sound like it would be useful for me in the environements I'm in. Can such a filter darken washed-out desert skies?"

Here are a couple of before and after shots.  One is straight of the camera, with only WB and Lens correction.  The second has 20-30 seconds of editing, which can then be applied to an entire series of shots with a couple of clicks.

I was looking at a storm cloud today, with the sun just out of the frame to the right.

This has the "dehaze" filter applied at +30.