Falls Coming... Which Filter?

[Uhland]

Which filter would be best?
ND or CP?

CP will give nice saturated trees and sky.
ND will allow me to capture the clouds, sky, tree tops without having to use HDR.
HDR reduced the quality of the photo imo.


Which one should I/would you use?

[ErikM]

Grad ND filters are great. A CP would be nice but you really only need those when shooting in the middle of the day or for removing reflection from water. ND grads are definitely more versatile :)

[adifor]

Use both,see how that goes,try everything

[Uhland]

Use both,see how that goes,try everything
Eventually.
Right now I dont own any filters.
Going to get only one for my Tamron.
Slowly but surly building up my gear.
Tiss the season to start doing more landscapes ;)

[Glenn NK]

I use CPL to reduce the shine/reflection from botanicals (grass, flowers, leaves) and thereby saturate the colour.

[Mark_Cohran]

I use CPL to reduce the shine/reflection from botanicals (grass, flowers, leaves) and thereby saturate the colour.

Same here - you can get about 1-2 stops of ND from a CPL. A grad ND is more useful for balancing exposure between ground and sky, but doesn't help with saturation or reflections.

Mark

[RedHot]

Which filter would be best?
ND or CP?

CP will give nice saturated trees and sky.
ND will allow me to capture the clouds, sky, tree tops without having to use

You should be looking at graduated neutral density filters not neutral density filters to do what you described - maintaining sky and trees when the foreground is darker.

A ND filter will darken your entire frame.

[Picture North Carolina]

Whatever you buy, buy quality. Don't purchase the usual consumer-priced, consumer-quality filters.

[Uhland]

You should be looking at graduated neutral density filters not neutral density filters to do what you described - maintaining sky and trees when the foreground is darker.

A ND filter will darken your entire frame.
definatly, my bad to not making that clear.

Whatever you buy, buy quality. Don't purchase the usual consumer-priced, consumer-quality filters.
So true.
Why spend so much for good glass only to hinder it with poor quality filters.


Im still in debate about this.
Maybe i'll just use HDR.
Its cheaper and very easy for me to do.
Only takes about 10-20 minutes per HDR.

Is it posssible to use both a GND and CP filters at once without buying crazy addapter systems?

[Mark_Cohran]

definatly, my bad to not making that clear.


So true.
Why spend so much for good glass only to hinder it with poor quality filters.


Im still in debate about this.
Maybe i'll just use HDR.
Its cheaper and very easy for me to do.
Only takes about 10-20 minutes per HDR.

Is it posssible to use both a GND and CP filters at once without buying crazy addapter systems?

Seems like you could if you use the Cokin system for the ND's and a regular screw in for the CPL- but then you run the risk of vignetting anytime you stack filters and at each glass/air interface there will be some degradation of IQ.

[elgillet]

Seems like you could if you use the Cokin system for the ND's and a regular screw in for the CPL- but then you run the risk of vignetting anytime you stack filters and at each glass/air interface there will be some degradation of IQ.

And my have to stop down the number of stops quite seriously too.