ND Filters & Long Exposures - The Definitive Guide
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- In this video, I take a look at all the Neutral Density standard filters available, offer advice on when to use them and suggest some great subjects you can shoot with them.
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I hadn't ever thought about the longer exposure's ability to re-establish the presence of reflections in rippling water. I'm going to have to try this with my large format work. Thanks for the tips.
I just started using RUclips to improve my photography (~2 months). You are the best I've seen! Keep up the great work and passion. Have Fun, Steve
Brilliant! Very nicely presented and inspirational. You did not get lost in technical detail that would detract from the point, yet you were able to transmitted the enormous variety and potential of these filters.
I have looked into the internet always for photography tips and tutorials but not many can make me satisfied as you did with your advises and instructions ..simple but great stuff and I will cling on to you for the rest of my time ..thanks a lot.
Craig, many thanks for a wonderful and insightful view on how to use filters. You get to the point in a very calm and measured manner that is both easy to listen to and watch. I'm going to watch a few more now. Keep up the great work.
there were a couple amazing photos from this video. First the six stop ND filter in the urban setting with motion blur of buses and people at 2:05 Second is the urban setting with reflections of water at 5:47 Nice video 😀
Lots of new and fun ideas for use of a ND filter, I just purchased a cheap set to see if I like it and it's cool so I'm shopping for brand name filters. I'm an amateur photographer of two years, shooting primarily baseball, tennis, soccer. It still blows me away to see a photographer shoot a street scene with prolonged shutter time and many of the people either ghost or don't show at all because they were. too fast to "paint" an image. Much to learn, thanks.....
Great educational video. You Brit are the best at photography education.
I like how you broke down the different stops. Good Video!
The best Video on ND filters.
Subscribed because of the great and thorough explanation
Great lesson for a beginner like I am. I'll watch this one over and over to let it all sink in. (It take me awhile.) Thanks
Love the cooling towers.
yo this man understands what an entertaining video is, and very educational
Love those cooling tower shots.
Not only your videos are very instructive and useful, but also the soudtrack is fantastic. Congratulations.
This is the video that got me to subscribe to your channel. Relaxed, packed with useful information and well presented.
Thanks James
very helpful. i just got one and can't wait to try it to improve my water pictures. thank you.
Impressive with your way of explaining and simplifying the matter. Thank you Sir
I’m still confused because of my camera unit’s function, but man, you made me grasp it just like that. Thanks Sir 🇺🇸
Incredibly informative and thorough. Thank you. Subscribed!
Excellent as always Craig. I often rush to my laptop to look at your next installment... And your own photography is brilliant !
Thank you this and all the rest. I think I finally understand ND filters. While I was watching this, I actually thought about getting some and of ways to use them.
Thanks! Incredible picture of the powerplant! Love it!
Nice video. Thanks. Clear and the subjects were a great way to show their use.
As ever Craig some great shots and some sound advice.
Great Video!! Im watching just before going out into the City and trying to shoot with my first set of ND filters. I really enjoyed watching and taking notes till the end!
Hi craig as I said before like what you do you make photgraphy look so simple and easy
The power station shots are so cool! Definitely want to try that out. I'm saving up for the Lee Seven5 filter system so only have some cheapy screw on filters for now. Very useful video, thanks Craig :)
Thank you, this is an excellent review on the use of ND filters. Appreciate it very much.
Love your videos. Simple yet very informative. Keep ‘em coming!
best video about filters simple yet informative
Some great tips in this video. Thank you. I will be applying these today.
Fabulous vlog and loved the music also. Great help.look forward to more.
Thank you, this was informative and helpful. Follow your other videos as well and enjoy what you make. Thank you to you for taking this time.
I learned new things and am inspired. Thank you very much
awsome videos gains g many valuable things from you. and really helped with a block I had just subscribed and looked forward to more
Another great, informative, useful video. Thanks.
I'm liking your videos more and more. This is excellent - gets to the point with good advice - doesn't waffle and gives great examples. Thanks!
thanks for the tips. Your photos are great!
A great video! It was all I needed.
great, informative video. to the point for the uses of each filter strength
That's a fantastic video and you explained beautifully. Thanks for sharing! has motivated me to go and do some experimenting
Thanks Paul
this is exactly what i was looking for. i'm really appreciating your vids e6 :D i'm learning
Love the power station shots... 👌🏻
Thanks for the lesson, appreciate it; outstanding pictures.
Excellent video - thank you for sharing!
Wonder what reasons the 22 people who gave this video a thumps down have? nonetheless thanks for the pointers, keep up the good work.
4:53 Did you add the man at the light pole from the left image to the right image? He looks very sharp for a 1-minute exposure.
Clever use of the filter. brilliant captures. Cheers. :)
Hi Craig, even I studied that Video lately, great stuft!!
Great video, Thank! Craig.
beautiful images
Great advice and info very informative .
The power station idea brought me here!
great video! very informative! Thanks!
Great instructions. Thanks
very informative clip, thank you very much..
i really like the "square" format, i have to use it sometimes
Excellent. Very informative.
great video this is so informative great shots also.
Good for isolating a still subject. Might be nice with a portrait if you can get the sitter to be still for 30 seconds or more.
Wonderful stuff!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge mate :-)
Great info here thanks for sharing
Your black and whites look great :)
The camera is no longer the high price item ....it's the add ons like lee filters
Great video - clear info + nice examples. Nice to talk about Olympus. I have the EM10 Mark II and there is very little info on the internet about how to use it in different situations. I have a question. You said that the Polarizer is like ND 2-stop. How do I adjust my shutter speed? Can I use the app that shows ND4 2 stops for that?
If you shoot in aperture or shutter priority, you camera will just compensate with the polariser filter on. You could use the app for a 2 stop ND , but that's more for when you know the camera could be confused by the dark filter to calculate correctly.
I do like this video - the first that i've seen of yours. Informative and in a non-boring kind of way. I am wondering, could you go a high ND filter combined with a polarising in the brightest of morning winter suns. I am in Brisbane and we have the most amazing deep blue sky winter mornings. No doubt this will push exposure by 2 stops but do you know if i will get the best info between the two filters? Thank you for your work. Cheers
You can use an ND with a polariser, after all a polariser is just a 2 stop ND in non-polarising mode. Remember two stops is doubling your exposure time twice however, which with long exposures can be significant.
excellent video!
Thanks for the grrat video!!!!
This really helped me out! Thanks there!
I must give my 10 stop one an airing. 2:04 I really like this one.
Nice video.
Great tips.
What nd filter kit are you using? I have the same camera and have been looking around for an nd kit.
If im going to use 3 stop nd plus polarizer,can i get some good water or clouds shots?
Again me here asking all sorts of questions, but this time: is Hoya Variable Neutral Density Filter any worse than buying separate filters, if you have any experience with variable density filters. Costs me 160€, but buying separate filters would cost more in a big run, so whatcha think?!
Thank you!
Nice video as usual Craig, how about focusing mode using ep-5 when big stopper or similar are on and you can barely see thru, any tips?
Switch on Live Boost in menu
Thx I will give a try. Have you tried shooting with Samyang?
I have the 7.5mm Fisheye. A gem!
Willing to share any setting for the ep5, I wanna try squeeze the best out of it. I love the camera and it's solid build construction feeling
hi Craig, thanks for the great videos I use an Olympus EM1 and EM5 mkii but find my results are often very grainy or noisey and wondered if you know what I can do to reduce this?
Cheers,
Peter
Sorry Peter, I'm not sure why you would find that. If you shoot at the base ISO, i find the images very clean and grain free.
AMAIZING! 😍
Hi Craig. I know you're supposed to use 85mm filters on a cropped sensor and I think 35mm film, but what size are you supposed to use with a 645 MF please? I was at Buttermere on Friday using a 5 stop with a 75mm lens on a Bronica ETRSi using Portra 160 but I only have 85mm filters. I also know lens size matters as well as sensor size when using them and the front element on this lens is tiny. I've not finished the film yet so there is a certain degree of anticipation. I also use the new Cokin Nuance and Hitech Firestone filters, which are a lot cheaper than Lee with no colour hue at all and they are both made with glass rather than the usual resin these companies are known for. Thank you, a brilliant video as always with fantastic easy to understand explanations.
I guess the 100mm systems are more commonly used with medium format cameras, as I used to use. But, I think you should be able to get away with 85mm size. It's really the grads that are the issue.
Thanks Craig, I'm not sure if I will use filters enough on that camera to warrant investing in a complete new system. I will have to give this some thought. Thanks again.
Thanks for the nice video
Brilliant vid mate. thanks for sharing. :-)
Excellent. I use screw in filters to the same effect - do you think they are seriously inferior to the kind you use?
No, not at all. Slot-in are just a bit more versatile to use.
Excellent informative well presented video at the right Pace. Please just drop the background music, not at all needed, its just distracting.
Really great video -extremely informative. I have an OM-D also - where's the cheapest place online to get the
Lee Seven5 system? Or is the viable cheaper system around? I'm in New Zealand....
I think you will find the Lee system the same price wherever you shop.
That's correct. I've researched throughout the whole Europe, and the differences in price for 150mm filter set were small.
Of all the filters you've used are the Lee's the least affected by colour cast?
I've only used Lee and B&W. The Hitech Firecrest are supposed to be neutral. Some other newer manufacturers are claiming theirs are too, but I haven't tried them myself.
Very informative, thanks :-)
I love how there was nobody in the photo at the Palais Chaillot. That never happens... Maybe at 4 in the morning.
Great stuffs 👍
I didn't realy get the part about aperture being different on MFT and differrent on FF. In terms of DOF it is correct but what does it have to do with exposure?
Simply because using f22 on FF will give you a certain exposure time. I can't use f22 on MFT, so how do I get the equivalent exposure time? By using a stronger ND filter.
i don't get it too.
Why can't you use f22? for example the Oly 12-40 f2.8 offers it
Obi Wan Of course, you can use f22, there's nothing stopping you, but you wouldn't want to because of diffraction as your results will be soft and lower quality.
Thanks
Huge thumbs up
What about stacking two 10 stops. It looks much cheaper than going up to 13.5., or 15 (or second 3 or 6 or whatever).
I am inspired by hiroshi sugimoto his works a great he must use something pretty heavy. Turns the coast into minimalism.
jorgepeterbarton 20 stops is quite excessive!
all you need is 3,6,10 stops and a three slot nd filter holder you can just stack them up its a big savings than buying the 15 stops (its the most expensive nd filter he keeps promoting it.
ramon castro Yes, because buying three filters is so much more cost effective than buying one! And what about when you want to add an ND grad? And the potential light leaks? And the vignetting from a 3 slot holder... and if that option suits you, then fine, but I’m showing an option that suits me.
Thanks Craig: do you have to deal with colour cast with these filters and if you do, how?
Yes, they have a slight blue tinge. Either leave it for added mood in colour, tweak the white balance in post to return to normal or convert to black and white. Easy
Great content.... are you using viewsonic monitor's
The secondary one is, the main one is a Dell
Hi Craig. I use a viewsonic for editing and want to go dual monitor, would you recommend Dell over viewsonic .
Excellent video I learn't a lot by watching this, but can you get the same effects with cheaper grad filters from say Amazon for £30?
Well, these aren't grad filters, but there are other makes of ND filters that are just as good.
Oh dear, already I'm showing my inexperience using the wrong terminology, sorry :(
But I recall that I have standard filters as well as grads from Amazon, so I guess you could, depends how you use them, no hard and fast rules I guess.
Thanks for these video's they are so well made as a tutorial to learn and understand from :)
CarlosVanVegas don't mean to interrupt however I used to use cheap filters when I started out, a good tip is to take one long exposure with the filter, and one normal shot without the filter... then I used to use Photoshop to blend the layers together, basically you take the water and sky from the long exposure and mix it with the sharper unfiltered shots. there are simple guides here on RUclips.
Using an ND filter may trick a non-photographer into thinking the water is calm but the photographer will immediately spot the fuzzy building reflections in the calm water. Actually, that creates an uneasy feeling which I find gimmicky. Don't agree? Show a friend and ask her about the pic. I just did and "something is off" is the response I got. Don't know about you but "something is off" is never a response I want to get on my prints.
Yes I agree. The ones with blury water often just feel wrong.