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Filter Systems for NDs, Grads and Polarisers – Part One
Part One - First Impressions
End frame: East Branch, Middle Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey by William Neill
Alastair Ross chooses one of his favourite images
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Hans-Ludwig Beinsen-Ruf, Linda McKnight, Margaret Soraya & Mark Hunneybell
Meet Your DMN
How to hack your brain to become a better landscape photographer
Paul Hart
Featured Photographer
My Favourite Image
First witness
Limitations and constraints in photography
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations
Tales of a Wandering Photographer
Abandonment
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With the advances in sensor technology, graduated filters are reaching marmite status with many people saying they are a huge handicap to photographers and others that they are key to a mindful photography practice. The truth, as always, is probably somewhere between the two but we’ll have more about that towards the end of our new series where we’re reviewing filter systems.
Yes! An equipment review! In On Landscape! To be honest you’d probably see more if I wasn’t such a perfectionist/completist. As it is, this article took over a year to plan and gather the hardware for and I’m still getting new systems in.
Testing equipment is a joyless task though. Unless you’re an absolute geek, that is; in which case it’s an excuse to play with spectrophotometers, digital thickness callipers, newton ring planarity testers and many cups of coffee. After all of this type 2 fun I then have the task of making it translate into the real world. Hopefully, I can get all this done over the next three issues.
A big thanks for everyone who helped contribute ideas for tests I could apply to these filters and for the manufacturers and friends who have helped me get hold of the hardware.
For now, back to the laboratory!!
Tim Parkin
Issue 167 PDF
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Filter Systems for NDs, Grads and Polarisers – Part One
Filter Systems for Neutral Density, Graduated and Polarising Filters including Kase, Benro, 84.5, Haida, Breakthrough, XC Source, Zomei, Wine Country, SRB, Cokin, Nisi, Lee, Progrey & Firecrest. more
End frame: East Branch, Middle Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey by William Neill
There is the calm of autumn emphasised by the lack of movement in the water and in the trees, creating perfect reflections. It is quite meditative. more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Our 4x4 feature is a set of 4 photography portfolios from our subscribers: Hans-Ludwig Beinsen-Ruf, Linda McKnight, Margaret Soraya & Mark Hunneybell more
Meet Your DMN
When your attention is focused on the task of making photographs, mindfulness—consciously paying attention to things happening in the present moment—gives you the ingredients from which to make photographs. more
Paul Hart
Paul concentrates on a precise geographical area, photographing intensively over a number of years. He is well known for his finely crafted silver gelatin prints and for the books he has produced. more
My Favourite Image
In the southern hemisphere summer months the slopes of Hikurangi are ‘generally regarded’ as the first place on earth to receive the first rays of sun of each new day more
Limitations and constraints in photography
Many are the individuals who have praised the beneficial effects of limitations and constraints in the creative process. more
Tales of a Wandering Photographer
As with any journey, each is unique, the options unlimited and we each choose our own route. They all differ and there is no right or wrong. It’s a very personal thing. more