yea but graduation nd only darkens half of frame, and you dont want to get sky/ground on same sized halfs everytime , but works great when you do want. Circ-pl filter is better imo for landscapes overally because it remover polarizarion from water particles on the air so it makes sky look darker

oh! That's cool! Do you think a cp filter could make background in this picture look less overexposed?



This post was edited by Futurama on May 21 2009 09:55am

it removes polarization and sky is so bright because light from sun reflects the little water particles, so it makes sky more darker. Allso it increases contrast, so yea i think it would help little for other background allso because colors are more stronger and doesent look so overexposed

This post was edited by Antichrist- on May 21 2009 10:06am

Sounds good! Now I just have to spend 150 bucks to buy that damn thing lol.

This pic is why exposure blending and HDR became common.

You take two pics because a camera doesn't have the dynamic range of your eye ... you blend them in PS or some such program.

Or use a split or graduated ND filter for the sky and then expose for the foreground ... you will have a much nicer seen without the sky getting blown. A CPL works too but you just don't have the control of being able to properly expose the foreground and sky ... really the best options now are exposure blending and barring that, doing it in camera with a grd ND ...

This post was edited by Solarves on May 21 2009 05:00pm