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Hi,
resently moved to a DSLR for my photography. Looking at getting a ND filter for my landscape photos and seeking the collective wisdom of STW as to which strenght (is that the right word) to go for.
What do people here use and what would you recommend for UK landscape pictures, at all times of year.
Cheers
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most of the time I need a filter to make it brighter...
Presume you're meaning the graduated ones - mostly to help with skies, in which case 0.3 and 0.6 are the ones to have - use individually or combined.
Look at the Cokin P system - filters are all one size fitting to your lenses with an adaptor system, very handy.
If you want the ultimate then Lee filters are the way to go.....
Alternatively bracket your exposures and combine the shots in post production......
I have the Cokin P system, and have 0.3 0.6 and 0.9 ND grads and the same in full ND's.
I mix and match as required with the P series holder, a good flexible system.
I went for a Lee holder (much better quality than the Cokin one, and a set of Cokin X Pro* filters - they're quite a lot larger than the 'P' size but still a lot cheaper than the Lee filters.
Buy the best you can afford - you won't regret it...... The advantage of the larger filters / holder is that if you expand your lens collection (say, to an extra wide angle), your filter system will cope.
* Or is it Z-Pro.... Off to check....
Yeah, are you after graduated or just a solid ND to lengthen exposure times?
0.3 or 0.6 as already suggested are probably all you need to start with of either graduated or normal.
Again - as suggested take a look at the Cokin P-Series.
If you are after ND grads, think about whether you will need hard or soft transitions. Hard are best if you have a horizon running the whole way across your shot, whereas soft are better if you have things 'in the way' of the horizon.
There are many situations where there is too much in the shot that makes an ND grad useless, as you'd end up with the tops of mountains being darkened compared to the bottom, for example.
If flat ND then the camera may already have a setting. Or just rate the "film" slower.
Cheers for the replys. More to consider and research now 😕