Photography with Optical Filters

Polarizers, gray filters, and graduated ND filters are all capable of radically improving the quality of your photos. They help to emphasize nuances of light, make subject movement visible, intensify colors, and much more besides.

With this book, you will learn when to use which types of filter, and all about selecting, acquiring, and handling the various types of filter available today. Karen Meyer-Rebentisch shows you how to use filters to create dramatic landscape, city, and nature photos.

Topics covered include:

• Screw-in vs. slot-in filers
• Combining multiple filters
• Reducing or enhancing reflections
• Enhancing color saturation with polarizers
• Long exposures using gray filters
• Adding energy to an image using motion blur
• Using long exposures to create a feeling of calm
• Reducing the dynamic range of bright skies using graduated filters
• Soft- and hard-gradient graduated filters
• Using reverse-gradient filters when the sun is low in the sky