Photographers teach you how to shoot landscape works with gradient gray filters.

Landscape photography

Sometimes, you often find that the sky is much brighter than the scenery. It is often difficult to keep the details of the sky when the landscape is accurately exposed.

Precise exposure

The scenery will be too dark again.

Gradient gray filter

Is one of the ways to solve this problem. The gradient gray filter is used in front of the camera. Half is completely transparent and the other half is neutral.

Gray mirror

Generally speaking, when using the gradient gray filter, you will put

Neutral ash

Half of it is covered in the sky to dim the light in the sky, and the transparent half is covered in the landscape. In this way, the exposure of two parts can be accurate at the same time.

There are two kinds of gradient gray filters-those with transitional edges and those with hard edges. What has a transition on the edge is a real gradient gray filter. This is the most commonly used filter in landscape photography because the shooting effect is more natural.

Hard-edged filters are obvious in shooting.

split line

More useful in the scene. When in use, the boundary between neutral gray and transparent part coincides with the boundary of the scene.

Gradient gray filter has the difference of "hierarchy":

ND0.3

=

1 level

ND0.6

=

secondary

ND0.9

=

third stage

It needs to be used according to the relationship between the sky and the scenery.

light ratio

To decide which level of filter to use.

Although there are also gradient gray filter types that can be rotatably mounted on the lens, most photographers prefer them.

convex lug

Type of square filter. Plug-in filter can easily rotate the angle and move up and down, which has wider adaptability.

Compared with software processing, the biggest advantage of using gradient gray filter to deal with exposure problems is that it can see the effect in time and save time.

However, the gradient gray filter also has the weakness that it is only effective when the dividing line is obvious. if

your photo

If an object, such as a tree, runs through the upper and lower parts, it will also be affected, and the exposure of the upper and lower parts is inconsistent. This is the main problem encountered in using gradient gray filter, and it is better to solve it with software at this time.

(Compile/New Photography)