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Graduated Filters

::Benroy
01/05/06 5:55 PM GMT
I'm after a graduated filter for landscape photography mainly to help prevent the sky burning out. I've found three kinds avaliable, blue, grey and tobacco. Is one more favourable than the others. Naturally I would go for blue but thought I could get some info' on what effects the other two will have. I will be grateful for any help what so ever, or any tips on metering for bright skys.

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.KEIFER
01/05/06 6:59 PM GMT
well .. grey filters all color equally and so does NOT augment color .. these are also known as Neutral Density Filters (ND) ...

You can always augment color in photoshop if you so wish .. so I would probably lean towards the grey filter

Tobacco provides a very moody \ stormy sky .. if you happen to have the movie Top Gun lying around .. the director used a graduated tobacco effect in the opening scenes (if memory serves) .. on another of his films in the same era as that one too

These guys reject tobacco as yucky


cokin graduated filter examples
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::Benroy
01/05/06 7:42 PM GMT
Thanks for that Keith, some of the lighter grey ones are what i'm looking for. At the moment i just use 55mm hoya filters, but Cokin have quite a selection. Could be worth looking into one of their little contraptions. Think i'll stick away from the tobacco ones, it just looks like the shot has been taken with completely the wrong white balance.
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.KEIFER
01/05/06 7:55 PM GMT
I used Cokin Filters on my film camera .. their "contraptions" allow for some flexibility in placing the horizon due to the up-down sliding action .. you don't get that with a screw on filter

In the photoshop world .. Cybia .. check the freeware menu .. Fotomatic .. SkyGrad

did I mention it was FREE ?
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::Benroy
01/05/06 8:14 PM GMT
A freebie, I can't resist. I'll give it a try on one of my many burnt sky landscapes and I'll certainly be having a closer look at the cokin range, thanks for the help.
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