In Search of an ND Grad Filter

Posted at 22:00:42 on Thu, January 10th 2008 by graham
in: d40x home photography polarised sky three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

In Search of an ND Grad Filter

Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 9

The horrendous weather finally began to break up and bugger off today, much to my relief. The fields at the foot of the hill are flooded by what is still technically the river Lune, and I was trying to get a shot of that. Unfortunately, the bright sky, which I didn't want to lose, mean that I could expose one or the other but not both. Lacking a grad ND filter I couldn't do much about it, so I exposed for the sky (with a polariser) and cropped out the dark treeline.

There'll be other chances, anyway. The river floods at the drop of a hat.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.

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