Preserve skies with graduated filters

Discover how you can easily protect precious detail in the sky using a graduated ND filter

How many times have you taken a quick snapshot of a beautiful landscape scene, only to find you are left with a bleached-out scene with no detail or colour? Unlike our eyes, which can instantly adjust to around 24 stops in light difference, the camera cannot record anywhere near this amount of variation in one frame. This is where the simple graduated grey filter comes into play. It bridges the gap in exposure difference between a bright and dark subject, balancing exposure. Graduated filters come in two types: circular screw-on filters and resin oblong filters that slide into a filter holder attached to the lens. Although screw-on grads are in principle the same as the system type, they are more restrictive – to move the graduation line means moving the…

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