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Camera Lens Filters - Getting Started
If you are just getting started in SLR photography, the thought of all the ancillary items you need can be mind-boggling. Between lenses, cases, battery packs and hot shoes, it’s no wonder most people enroll in a course or get a how-to book to figure out the basics. One item that almost all professionals carry with them and is relatively inexpensive is a series of lens filters. Lens filters improve the contrast, sharpness, color and intensity of the captured image. There are also special effect lenses that allow the photographer unprecedented control over the image at the point of capture.
Many of the more common lens filters such as UV/haze, polarizing, neutral density, and warming/cooling or color filters are key to capturing the correct image in a variety of lighting conditions. Knowing when to use them is the real trick and something that comes with time and experience.
UV filters have a primary purpose of reducing UV light from entering the lens, but because they are so common and inexpensive, as well as their small impact on the lighting of a picture people opt to use them as safety lens filters. Safety filters are primarily designed to protect the expensive lens from scratches and damage, because you would much rather replace a $10 lens filter than a $300 lens.
Polarizing lenses only allow the light to enter from a particular direction which reduces the amount of available light but increases the saturation of the image as a result. They are especially effective when used on landscape scenery to remove glare from water and increase contrast of natural settings.
Neutral density filters reduce the overall light such that aperture may increased in very bright light settings, which makes a reduced depth of field possible. Uses include capturing of water objects like rivers such that the water looks smoother and ND filters also provide some level of blurring for objects in motion. Sharpness is typically increased with these filters as well which is especially useful when capturing stones under river beds.
There are also many graduated filters available which provide varying levels of image opacity. These filters would be used such that in highly lit scenes you could select a transparent-to-opaque look by adjusting the filter.
Colored filters provide an overall color shift for the image and can often result in an artistic look that can not be replicated as easily in post-production settings. By filtering the light at the source there are benefits to the midrange colors over traditional leveling techniques. White balances can also be adjusted using a specialized filter to adapt to the current scene requirements.
The result of using any particular filter on the end photograph will be as varied as the styles of the photographers taking the photos. Selecting the right filter is as individualistic and dependent on conditions as framing the shot correctly. Knowledge of the correct filters to use to achieve a particular look is something that comes with experience, so buy lens filters and start practicing!
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i bought me a digital slr nikon d80.67mm . im still fooling around with it but the more i do that the more i mess it up by locking it up and it wont take pictures or quickly enough. please help me by telling me what is the best setting that i can put my camera on for best portraits.and what do you think about this kind of camera?
Also i bought some filters for the camera on ebay. these filters are softtone,diffuser,duto. the name brand ACE .i have taken pictures with these filters and still cant tell the difference , what am i doing wrong? or is it the filter itself? do i need to set my camera on some kind of setting to make these pictures look right? Please help me with all you can and what you know, thank u
also, i i take pictures without the flash i get this blurry picture. and it also looks yellow. what i do to help that?
That's a lot of questions but it's late and I can't sleep, so here goes.
Q i bought me a digital slr nikon d80 ... it wont take pictures or quickly enough.
A The D80 is a great camera, as dpreview.com, Steve's Digicams, and any other reputable review site will confirm. To speed up the picture-to-picture time, you can put the D80 in continuous shooting mode. This way it will take 3 pictures per second, for as long as you keep the shutter button pressed down. Without the flash, that is. If you're using the flash, the flash itself requires several seconds to recharge. You can speed up the flash time by investing in an external flash - Nikon makes some really nice ones, but it will never be as fast as shooting without flash.
Q what is the best setting for portraits.
A Set the camera in aperture priority mode, with the aperture at around f/4. This will give a nice blurry background.
Q Also i bought some filters for the camera on ebay. these filters are softtone,diffuser,duto. the name brand ACE .i have taken pictures with these filters and still cant tell the difference , what am i doing wrong? or is it the filter itself?
A I personally own only two filters - a uv filter to protect the lens and a circular poleriser on bright sunny days. Everything else, including the effects that you SHOULD be getting with your filters, can be reproduced with image editing software. I suspect that the effects that your filters provide are too subtle to register at a glance. If you did some test shots with/ without the filters, using a tripod, shooting the same subjects with the same camera setings, and then if you compared the results at 100% magnification, you'd be able to see some differences. As for the brand ACE, never heard of them... but whoever made them, I'd expect the filters to WORK. On a side note, cheap filters can actually degrade image quality. And if the filters aren't properly coated (cheapies never are) they can introduce flare and ghosting, as well. All sorts of nasty stuff. Those 2 filters that I use set me back over 70 bucks each. That was for a massively expensive lens though, so I could rationalize the added expense.
Q do i need to set my camera on some kind of setting to make these pictures look right?
A Nope. Filters do not require special camera settings.
Q i take pictures without the flash i get this blurry picture. and it also looks yellow. what i do to help that?
A Without the flash, your shutter speed becomes a lot slower. Any handheld shot will become too jittery due to camera shake. Try using a tripod. Or if handheld, crank up the ISO setting - the image will become a bit grainy as a result, but grainy always beats blurred.
As for the yellow haze, that's caused by shooting in artificial light. Adjust the white balance setting on your camera to correct the issue. Alternatively, as in the days of film cameras, you could use a special filter to compensate. Or altenatively, alternatively, you could correct the image after the fact with image editing software. The white balance setting on the camera is by far the easyest option.
Please pardon any spelling mistakes - it's late and all, and my answer is too long for yahoo's built-in spell checker to work.
Oh, and i'm not a pro. just an avid amateur with a d200 and a lot of spare time.
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