ND Grad Test
Posted by David on December 29th, 2008
As a gift, I was given a Lee Filter Foundation holder system. In non-camera-nerd speak, that means it’s a piece that screws into the front of a lens that holds pieces of plastic in front of it. The plastic are called filters and change the light passing through them. The filter could just be coloured, like red or blue, or have special properties like polarization.
The first set of filters I bought for it was an ND Grad filter. It’s a filter where the top part is greyed (like sunglasses) and the bottom half is clear. Why? Because the difference in exposure for the sky and the ground is usually massive – you start to lose the clouds. With an ND Grad filter, you can get you can get dramatic sky pictures like this:
Sky over Brampton Suburb
Prefabricated building construction in the steel beam stage
Driving down the DVP
Pedestrians Downtown Toronto
I’m a happy guy.
