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For C&C - my first experience with a ND grad filter

  • 13-06-2010 1:23am
    #1
    trican
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I bought a cheap and cheerful Cokin filter holder, adapter and graduated ND filter (3stops) today. Its been fun playing around with it and am pretty pleased with the results. But I think I haven't quite nailed its usage yet. For example in the shot below the soft grad was too low and the trees on the hill were lost in the shadows. Though I did manage to retrieve some of these details in Lightroom.

    So if anyone has any C&C for the below shot I'd be really interested to hear them. For anyone interested, the location is in the Peak District, UK (alas I'm no longer living in Killaloe).

    4694211603_87736d60af_b.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    stabo
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭stabo


    I like it,i think the water looks very flat tho. Looks very like a pic from Kilaloe.


  • #3
    trican
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭trican


    stabo wrote: »
    I like it,i think the water looks very flat tho. Looks very like a pic from Kilaloe.

    thanks for the feedback - The water wasn't still enough for any nice reflections so I used a pretty long exposure in the hope of some ghostly shimmering effects (I don't know what to call it!) on the rocks. Would completely agree it has caused the rest of the water to look very flat/uninteresting. Back to the composition drawing board :-)


  • #4
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Filter not being placed exactly is always a problem with these, you have to make a compromise and given the small about of sky, I'd say it's about right.

    It might have been possible to use an even longer exposure ~ getting a real mist effect ~

    A problem arises then that your smaller aperture will make a very sharp definition from you grad filter ~ so you can't really win.


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