When to Use a Filter!
Professional photographers have their own filter set together with other camera equipment. Even amateur photographers are learning fast and some of them already have filters whenever they are taking pictures. Do you know what filters are? What are the uses of these filters?
Filters are used to improve recorded images. These are optical and transparent elements that can change light properties entering your camera. If you use filters, certain properties are affected like color, light intensity, highlight flare, sharpness, and contrast. These properties can also be altered with the use of filters.
The filter is placed on the lens and aside from affecting the light properties it also serves as a lens protector. Salt air can affect the lenses but if you have filters, the lenses stay protected. There are also cameras where you can’t use filters unless you have adapters.
Filters can be used both in film and digital cameras. Some digital cameras blow out highlights, but if you are using a filter, you can easily reduce excess contrast. Digital cameras are not UV sensitive and so UV filters will not be of much use to you; if you want, you can use infrared filters instead.
There are different
Click here to continue readingThe Use Of Filters In Photography!
Filters have two different meanings depending on how long you have had photography as a hobby. Most of us today think as filters as an option with Photoshop. This is not the case. Before the invention of computers and things like Photoshop we had small glass discs to create the filtered affect. There are many options with filters you can blur a picture, sharpen the picture, and even block out the UV rays. Filters are often used to correct a problem or make a picture look a little different.
Lets talk about filters that blur a photograph. When you are taking a picture of a waterfall at the bottom where the water rises in a cloud you can add a filter to create the cloud in the picture. Cameras don’t always see what the eye sees. In some cases it can have a high resolution to depict the actual water drops rather than the cloud, so adding a filter to your lens can help create the effect your eye sees.
Other filters such as the UV protector guard against the harsh rays. Along with the UV filter you should have a polarizer. The polarizer is used in photography when you
Click here to continue reading