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Reverse ND Grads
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Reverse ND Grads
I know Singh Ray produce these and can be purchased in the US… but I’m put off buying outside the EU at the moment.
Anyone know if they can be bought within the EU?
Cheerz
Have a look…
http://www.singh-ray.com/reversegrads.html
Sometimes when shooting a sunrise/sunset the image is going to be brightest where the sun meets the horizon so you want to darken this section down without affecting the darker sky that sits above it.
If you look at many landscape photos you’ll notice the appear darker at the top as the grad being used isn’t fully appropriate.
Well let’s hope you don’t get those ones,
cos they’re covered in fingerprints…
as far as I know, Singh Ray is the way to go…
if you find where to buy them, give me a shout will you?nfl-fan wrote:
As far as I know Giz they can only be purchased from the US… expensive too.
well, for a moment I thought that you discovered the ‘el dorado’ :(
Surely it’s got to be more economical to “MacGyver” it as was suggested earlier.
Layer masks and gradients have to be the way to go at that rate.
Layer masks and gradients have to be the way to go at that rate.
Oh, I never thought of that.
You’d have to wonder why the manufacturer never thought of this… and why landscapers the likes of Joe Cornish actually bother with filters at all?
Can you pull back a blown sun using this technique?
Can you write us a guide?
Thanks, looking forward to it.
Exactly, what’s everyone been thinking this whole time ?
Step 1 – Open photo
Step 2 – Draw grey line across sunset
Step 3 – Put feet up and admire a job well doneYou could always carry around a non blown picture of the sun on a stick and hold that up in front of the real sun if you don’t want to go through that whole mess…
Crikey, never thought I had a future in writing guides, who’d have thought it.
Would you consider the Lee system;
These are always in my bag and I dont call them reverse anything, they are graduated neutral density filters
http://www.leefilters.com/camera/products/packs/ref:P47A9C932631F0/
I think I bought them in Robert White about 10 years ago but lots of places do them like warehouseexpress.com etc
PeteW wrote:
Layer masks and gradients have to be the way to go at that rate.
I dont seem to have a Layer Mask and Gradient button on the back of my camera, I must upgrade to a camera that takes batteries one day :lol: :lol:
Seriously though, masks, gradients, hdr, nd grads all have their shortcomings but its handy to have plenty of options.
All I’m saying is, there are ways of recreating this kind of reverse grad effect in post processing, are they going to be as good as using such a filter in the first place ? very unlikely unless you are some super whizzkid on the PS side, which I know I’m not.
But then these filters are very expensive for what seems, on the face of it to be a fairly specific requirement, although there are a fair few sunset/rise pictures around here that would suggest it’s not that specific.
As always, post processing is not a substitute for getting things right at the point of shooting, which in the examples above, this type of filter are obviously going to help with. It’s not always that case though that we have, or can afford, the equipment required to do that, so sometimes we have to work around that.
Obviously, everyone’s welcome to follow my (rogue) advice above, you mileage, of course, may vary :P
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