Fun with filters
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Well except for one brief period light has been pure crap since last week. Despite that, or maybe because of that I’m having some fun with them. The following are some experiments, a couple I like, a couple that need work..either in post, or better use of filters (including not at all) 🙂
Wanted to try some portrait type shots to see what I could do with the background. Didn’t have my flash with and the evening was overcast and grey. Despite the appearance of the bg there wasn’t much light, there was some blue sky to the east, the west where the sun was setting had a storm front rolling in, and sun was laregely behind clouds.
ISO 800 @ f4.5 1/500th
Taken about 10 minutes later. Not happy with skin tone
ISO 400 f2.8 @ 1/160th
ISO 100 f18 @ handheld at 1/3 used a 2 stop soft edge grad nd as well
ISO 250 f14 @ 1/60th
Storm rolling in
ISO 250 f14 1/80th…Grad ND used here as well
Dig it brother, ordered way too many of those after we pinged back and forth…..
thanks from me, my wallet says ouch.
I know it Aaron, wish I had relatives in Buffalo I could visit once every now and then 🙂 Take the us price and add another 30 to 40%
Like anything theres a learning curve. When to use them, when not to,
It looks cool John, I want one !
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Thanks David.
It’s definately limited application but *in* those situations Im really impressed. Perhaps most by it’s ability to breathe life into images that would otherwise be flat (when lights not sweet).
I took delivery of their Thin LB Warming CP Wednesday. Havent had a chance to much with it other than a couple quick comparison shots against my Hoya Pro 1 dmc.
Blows the Hoya away and whats really cool is that the loss of light is sooo much less. Will keep the Hoya for times when I want to reduce the light getting to my sensor ( flowing water) but otherwise the the SR LB CP will be glued to my lens at all other times.
24-70 with the LB CP
ISO 100
F8.0Underexposed if memory serves me right by 1 1/3rd so as to preserve the highlights.
John, all my thin mount Hoya’s have come apart and they scratch very easily, they’re junk.
I hate them.. ;D
The flower sot is good, there must be 10 stops between the highlights and the shadows under the leaves – well done.
I bet that warm tone will be great on a forested stream – I bet it would also work well on a flatter day, like a thin overcast.
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