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Graduated neutral-density filters are simple tools designed to solve landscape photography's perennial...

Graduated neutral-density filters are simple tools designed to solve landscape photography's perennial...

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Mastering Graduated Neutral-Density Filters
Graduated neutral-density filters are deceptively simple tools designed to solve landscape photography's perennial problem: how to compress the very broad range of tones we observe in the real world into the much narrower range of tones we can reproduce in a print. Split ND filters, as I'll call them for short, are dark gray on the top half, clear on the bottom half. There's a gradual transition zone in the middle from dark to clear. The dark...