Thanks! Are you getting these ridiculously warm temps too? We're sitting right around freezing right now, and it's only supposed to drop enough for the rain to turn to snow later.
That is awesome. I love the silhouettes in the first one (and that awesome orange color) and the whole effect in the second is just amazing. I'm excited to see some of the stuff you're getting with the filters!
Thanks! Oh man, the sky was incredible this morning, however I had to get people dropped off so I wasn't setting a bad example of being late and missed a lot of it.
I send great thanks for the link, because I just got a new lens, and I had two polaroid lenses for that size just sitting around (the result of someone buying me the wrong size, Twice!), so I went right out and reversed one of them. I anticipate happy experimentation in my future (and yes, being cheap filrers, the both of them, they blue out in the darker end, but I rarely want to get that dark anyway) and so this may be sufficient for my needs.
Oh, I'm glad the link was useful! There are so many forums where people make claims that you have to have this gear or that brand of filter, etc. etc. to make good photos, but I don't believe that's true. Yes, good equipment helps, but an even better understanding of how the equipment you have works is more important. I have a collection of squares of colored plastic and welding glass and rubber bands and penlights and silver foil in my camera bag that work just as well as some of the more expensive equivalents sold in the photography stores and online. My latest acquisition? Not the $60 'cold weather photography gloves', but the $15 neoprene ice fishing gloves from Walmart that are identical, except for the logo.
they blue out in the darker end
I was doing some reading on this and some of the reviews of the more expensive variable filters talked about the same problem. I guess the only way around that if you wanted to go really dark is to use welding glass, or expensive Cokin filters and stack them.
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I send great thanks for the link, because I just got a new lens, and I had two polaroid lenses for that size just sitting around (the result of someone buying me the wrong size, Twice!), so I went right out and reversed one of them. I anticipate happy experimentation in my future (and yes, being cheap filrers, the both of them, they blue out in the darker end, but I rarely want to get that dark anyway) and so this may be sufficient for my needs.
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they blue out in the darker end
I was doing some reading on this and some of the reviews of the more expensive variable filters talked about the same problem. I guess the only way around that if you wanted to go really dark is to use welding glass, or expensive Cokin filters and stack them.
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