[quote=stockstradr]I only use polarizer filters which remove glare and reflections.

Same here. Shoot in RAW mode and take care of the rest later, instead of using a UV filter.

Backpacking through Europe was first time my using the polarizing filters. What a difference!

Inside the train going through the Swiss Alps, windows covered with reflections…but the polarizing filter knocks those reflections off the windows.

Later outside the train, shooting Swiss Alp peaks against a blue-sky spattered with puffy white clouds. The polarizer makes the clouds “pop out” from the blue sky. Really nice effect.

You know what AMAZES me? How many stupid Americans carrying around digital SLR costing over $1000 (just for the body)….yet watch them take five photos and realize they are CLUELESS on the very basics of photography. (They need to spend $100 on a photog class at their local community college instead of spening $1,000 for an SLR body)

A CLASSIC retard move I saw one thousand expensive-SLR carrying tourists make: position their family member before a backdrop of incredibly bright sunlit snow or clouds yet the subject has shadows on their face, then shoot without fill-flash. “Gosh Martha, why them faces all black in our photos? That snow look real good though.”
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Um, with all due respect..I see a lot more overseas asians in this category than americans.

What drives me crazy is seeing a Canon 5D or such with a crappy lens. Not that I would know want to do with anything beyond a digital rebel.