How to fake a polariser effect
Use Lightroom Classic to darken and enhance the blue of a lukewarm sky
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Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer, based in Galway. He’s the author of The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC.
The circular polariser is probably one of the only physical filters that you need as a digital photographer. All of the others can be replicated easily in software; graduated filters are right there as a masking option; warming or cooling can be done with White Balance, even those 10x filters can be emulated by taking a series of photos and blending them. However, the circular polariser is different.