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Cokin H250 P Grad Kit
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Cokin H250 P Grad Kit
I in truth like these ND filters. Unlike a screw-on filter these may be adjusted up or down depending on where the brightest part of your scene is going to be. if you have the multi-holder, you can in addition stack them to increase the effect.
Using ND filters takes fewer time and venture than stacking exposures in Photoshop… the only downside is that ND filters like these have a stright transition, so if you have a very jagged skyline then hit can artifically darken so many peaks in an image.
To incur well exposed landscape photos when the sky is much brighter than the midtones and shadows, graduated neutral density filters are a must. These work specially well. They slide up and down so you can meet the horizon line. They as well rotate vertically. I use a 2 stop ND filter in all my landscape shots with anything other than blue skys.
I purchased this to utilize the landscape photography technique of “holding back” strongly lit portions of landscapes, such as a bright sky, mountain range, or ocean. The kit includes three plastic graduated filters, every of dissimilar “strength.” every filter has it’s own plastic case, so all three together can be finelooking bulky, when it comes to as broad as a wide-angle lens in your camera pack.
The kit ships with a holder for the filters, but you need to buy a discerned adapter that screws into the front of your lens so that you can attach the holder. At introductory I simply held the filter in front of the camera lens to hold back the suitable part of the shot. However, I would commend buying the adapter, as you can be more sure that the filter is in the right place when the shutter fires.
Overall this has been helpful to in the right way expose landscape shots, exceptionally at dawn and dusk. I know a good amount of folks are taking multiple shots at dissimilar exposures, and then layering them in post-processing to get around the need for ND filters in the field, but I still feel that the colors are more vibrant if you really get the magnification right in the original place.
I don’t know its behavior with film, but with digital cameras, don’t put 2 or more Cokin ND Graduated filters, one above the other. The magenta cast is aweinspiring and don’t attempt to correct it by modifiying your in camera’s color temperature: it will affect the non-filtered area. If one filter isn’t enough, undertake the old and genuine Photoshop trick: with the camera in a tripod (ideally), take two -or more RAW shots, one for the highlights and one for the shadows (if I have no tripod handy, I use the bracketing and high speed in my camera to take a couple of pictures, attempting not to move); then mix them in Photoshop and…. voila!!!! No need to bother with rings, affixations and delicate and without apparent effort scratched plastic filters.
Added Feb. 3/09
The former review was done with the filters on Canon’s 40D and 50D. I have now a Nikon D700 and the magenta cast isn’t any more visible. May be ther is an issue with Canon’s EF-S sensors.
I don’t many times use filters on my camera beside a UV or Circular Polarizer, but when I planned on taking a trip to the Grand Canyon I started reading a lot of articles kept mentioning the gains of Graduated ND filters. The more I looked into it, the more I wanted to attempt it out for myself. After buying these filters and using I wondered why I haven’t heard when it comes to these years ago. It was unquestionably worth my investment and I strongly recommend these filters to anyone.
Very utile set of filters… not the best quality of glass (resin), but you can get great results if employed correctly. Something that isn’t mentioned in the description is they are graded light / medium / strong, which translates to ND2 / ND4 / ND8.
Very handy kit to have when taking photo’s. All you need is an adapter ring for each lens – only one set of filters.
Just as expected. Haven’t applied them yet but there is no reason to anticipate them to be other than as advertised.