Filters?

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Hi All

I want to get more in to landscape photography and start to explore places and give it ago but i hear alot about filters need to be used

What sort of filters do you recommend ? its all new to me so a learning curve

i want to start giving the Sea and rocks with sunets. landscapes with mountains and stuff ago

Any help would be cool

Regards
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[dandeakin]

They don't need to be used, but can be useful.

Some sort of ND grad filter would probably be the most useful - bear in mind that if you buy a cheep set to save some money you'll probably end up buying the more expensive ones later. Very much you get what you pay for. Have a look on the Lee website, there's some good tutorials on there

 

[Tringa]

I don't have an ND filter so can't comment other than that many people like the ND1000 filter - it reduces the light by 10 stops - so anything moving in the shot, clouds, water, people etc becomes blurred.

Grad ND filters are more generally useful for landscape work to balance the brightness of the sky against darker land. I use a 0.9 Grad which I find useful. Mine is a hard grad but I think a soft grad might be more useful as the transition on the hard grad is sometimes a bit too visible.

Lee filters appear to be regarded as the best, but they are also expensive. My Grad filter and holder is from here - http://srb-photographic.co.uk/ - and seems good to me.

Dave

 

[Dannyj1984]

Dave do you have any problems with the srb filters? I just checked them out and seem a decent price. I'm looking at getting a 10 stop filter. But don't really want to spend £80+ for £24 these seem quite good.

I use some soft grad filters for landscapes, hard grad can be used if you have a defined straight line on the horizon. With some practice you can get a similar effect in Photoshop. Always best to get it on camera though rather than relying on photoshop in my opinion.

Danny

 

[Tringa]

Danny, the only filter I have from SRB is the 0.9 hard grad along with the plastic P size filter holder. and adaptor ring.

The filter holder feels a bit flimsy. SRB did not do a metal filter holder when I bought mine or I might have considered one, but this plastic one has never given me any problems and the adaptor ring is metal.
I haven't noticed any colour cast from the hard grad filter, but it usually seems to be the cheaper ND filters that give people problems with a colour cast. However, on the basis of the limited amount of gear I have from SRB, I'd buy other stuff from them.

Dave

 

[Dannyj1984]

Great thanks I have a cokin filter holder and various cokin filters including a circular polariser but I was thinking of getting a screw in 10 stop filter, not sure if with a square filter there would be like leaking in between the filter and Lens

Danny