The Art of Filtration in the Digital Age

Part 2 - Neutral Density Filters

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Pastel Moonset

There was soft lighting with the sun about to rise behind me. The 2 stops of filtration was used to darken the sky, maximising the pastel purple hues. The sea stack and cliff interrupted the line of the horizon so a soft edge GND was chosen to avoid darkening these structures excessively. It was important to keep detail in the stack and cliff for the scene to look natural.

Canon 5D, 16-35mm 2.8L, ISO 200, f22, shutter 3.2 seconds, tripod, 2 stop soft GND