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How to Create LONG exposures with a Neutral Density Filter

by Jim Hamel | Last Updated: March 28, 2019

Shot of the Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach using a Neutral Density filter
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If you’ve ever wanted to master the art of long exposure photography, taking photos measured in full seconds or multiples of seconds, you’ll need to know more about the Neutral Density Filter. Guest author Jim Hamel goes through selecting a ND filter and then the 5 steps to mastering it. Used properly, camera filters and the 10-stop ND filter will allow you to achieve effects that are not possible to add in post-processing. It will add a real “wow” factor to your photos especially when there is water, clouds, or moving lights involved

Quick Tip About Circular Polarizing Filters, Wide Angle Lenses and the Sun

by Darlene Hildebrandt | Last Updated: August 19, 2017

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In this quick tip about circular polarizing filters, my good friend and Landscape photographer Jay Patel shares what he learned about using it on his wide angle lens. By making some simple assumptions, and not fully understanding how the filter worked, it cost him dearly on a trip to photograph the sand dunes in Death Valley California.

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