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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 362985" data-attributes="member: 9240">I recently started using a CPF outdoors.&nbsp; Never did before, but everyone swears by them for landscapes and I do notice that I can get better skies for sure.&nbsp; So, I'm down in FL visiting my Mom and she's yelling at me to come outside and take a photo of this rainbow.&nbsp; I grab my camera, go out, raise the camera and I'll be damned if there's no rainbow in the shot.&nbsp; I see it, I take it with my iPhone and get it, but nothing on my camera.&nbsp; Next day, I'm driving in and there's a perfect, strong double rainbow over her house, so I grab the camera and go to shoot it - it's faded and incomplete.&nbsp; Took me about a minute to realize, &quot;Dumbass - it's the CPF!!&quot;&nbsp; If you're curious why this is, the very direction of sunlight that I want to filter to make the skies pop is the direction that produces the rainbow. I didn't have time to take it off, but as I turned it there it was, though I couldn't capture the entire arc with the same level of intensity.&nbsp; So, word to the wise.&nbsp; If you use a CPF and see a rainbow, get it in your head that the first thing you want to do is take it off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 362985, member: 9240"] I recently started using a CPF outdoors. Never did before, but [I]everyone[/I] swears by them for landscapes and I do notice that I can get better skies for sure. So, I'm down in FL visiting my Mom and she's yelling at me to come outside and take a photo of this rainbow. I grab my camera, go out, raise the camera and I'll be damned if there's no rainbow in the shot. I see it, I take it with my iPhone and get it, but nothing on my camera. Next day, I'm driving in and there's a perfect, strong double rainbow over her house, so I grab the camera and go to shoot it - it's faded and incomplete. Took me about a minute to realize, "Dumbass - it's the CPF!!" If you're curious why this is, the very direction of sunlight that I want to filter to make the skies pop is the direction that produces the rainbow. I didn't have time to take it off, but as I turned it there it was, [I]though I couldn't capture the entire arc with the same level of intensity. [/I]So, word to the wise. If you use a CPF and see a rainbow, get it in your head that the first thing you want to do is take it off. [/QUOTE]

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