I'm a British software developer and photographer living in Vancouver, BC. I mainly photograph landscapes, cityscapes, night scenes, and water.
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This is gorgeous! Wreck beach huh? :o)
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Do you find that you use the hard ND filter more or the soft filter more? I have a set of hard ND grads but wondering what others used and found more useful...
@markyl Thanks Mark! I used the Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 lens at 16mm for this shot. It's a great lens and I really enjoy using it, but it's also a hard lens to recommend unless you absolutely need the f/2.8 maximum aperture. For me, that is essential for my star photography, but otherwise the Canon 17-40mm f/4 is half the price, lighter, uses smaller, cheaper filters, has a wider zoom range, and is slightly sharper in the corners.
@wardie Thanks Paul. This was shot 10 minutes after sunset, although because of the hills on the horizon, it was probably closer to 15 minutes after the sun stopped being visible from the beach.
@toast I don't even have soft-edged ND filters for my camera at the moment. When I was still in a position to use cheaper 85mm filters I had soft-edged and hard-edged filters, and I never got a shot I was happy with using the soft-edged filters. I suspect I've probably improved my technique to where I could find them useful on occasion, but even if I had them, I still think I'd use hard-edged filters 90% of the time, for the type of photography I do.
The filter I'm planning on buying next is a reverse ND grad, which is a filter that very quickly goes from clear to very dark at the horizon line, and then gets lighter again. These are great for sunset photos where the sun is just about to set, as the darkest portion of the filter blocks out most of the direct sunlight, and but the filter gets lighter to let in the colours of the sky above the sun. Unfortunately a good reverse ND grad filter in the 100mm width I now use costs about $200 :(
Fav. for sure and follow too...since your close to me..I am on the island...Vancouver Island that is...thanks for being open for questions and comments...I know I will appreciate that!
@wardie Thanks Paul. This was shot 10 minutes after sunset, although because of the hills on the horizon, it was probably closer to 15 minutes after the sun stopped being visible from the beach.
@toast I don't even have soft-edged ND filters for my camera at the moment. When I was still in a position to use cheaper 85mm filters I had soft-edged and hard-edged filters, and I never got a shot I was happy with using the soft-edged filters. I suspect I've probably improved my technique to where I could find them useful on occasion, but even if I had them, I still think I'd use hard-edged filters 90% of the time, for the type of photography I do.
The filter I'm planning on buying next is a reverse ND grad, which is a filter that very quickly goes from clear to very dark at the horizon line, and then gets lighter again. These are great for sunset photos where the sun is just about to set, as the darkest portion of the filter blocks out most of the direct sunlight, and but the filter gets lighter to let in the colours of the sky above the sun. Unfortunately a good reverse ND grad filter in the 100mm width I now use costs about $200 :(