Dr_Q
Well-Known Member
After a long long time researching and then forgetting about it I've got myself a set of soft ND grads. Last night I was at the point where I didn't even know how to fit the filter holder to the camera properly (in fact I put it on backwards and was wondering why it didn't fit too well...) but today I decided to give it a bash. This was using a HiTech 0.3 ND grad.
Annoyingly straight out of camera the shots were really lacking contrast which you can see if you click CLICKY. I played around with exposure correction and I think I've managed to portray the scene pretty accurately. I also have a screenshot of the photograph in lightroom CLICKY.
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/dr/dr_q/2009/01/18/grad1.jpg
I've tried to talk to as many people as I can about this and I have gotten a few different answers. Some people say that the grad has lessened the contrast in the photograph to make sure all of it is within the dynamic range of the sensor (kind of logical but I don't know...) Others have said that it was the way that I took these photographs in the first place. I got everything set up and metered with the grad on instead of metering the foreground or subject, locking the exposure and then using that exposure with the filter on again. It has also been suggestion that I could have gotten a similar photograph without a grad at all and that the conditions used weren't at all ideal for this sort of experiment.
Annoyingly straight out of camera the shots were really lacking contrast which you can see if you click CLICKY. I played around with exposure correction and I think I've managed to portray the scene pretty accurately. I also have a screenshot of the photograph in lightroom CLICKY.
https://pic.armedcats.net/d/dr/dr_q/2009/01/18/grad1.jpg
I've tried to talk to as many people as I can about this and I have gotten a few different answers. Some people say that the grad has lessened the contrast in the photograph to make sure all of it is within the dynamic range of the sensor (kind of logical but I don't know...) Others have said that it was the way that I took these photographs in the first place. I got everything set up and metered with the grad on instead of metering the foreground or subject, locking the exposure and then using that exposure with the filter on again. It has also been suggestion that I could have gotten a similar photograph without a grad at all and that the conditions used weren't at all ideal for this sort of experiment.
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