Putting the polarizing filter on the camera for the first time this year, I hiked up to Hanging Lake to shoot both stills and videos (see the videos here).
It was bright enough that I handheld the camera for all of these shots, using the aperture priority setting and choosing "cloudy" for the white balance (a setting I like because it gives such a warm tone to the images). Later, in Photoshop, I needed only small adjustments to levels and the unsharp mask. The black & white image was created (as most of mine are) using the channel mixer (boosting the green and lowering the red channels).
I really wish I had a wider angle lens for situations like this. The entire scene, from the lake at my feet to the top of the canyon walls around me, is worth capturing.
