In the days of film, filters were often regarded as essential tools for the photographer. These days, the likes of Photoshop and the use of third party plugins has rendered the need for filters irrelevant in some people’s eyes. This, of course could not be further from the truth, filters are as relevant today as […]
Tag: Cokin
Cokin is a French company that manufactures optical filters for photography. They are famous for their creative filter system that require a holder to attach to the lens and are designed to be used with any lens unlike the screw-thread filters.
Cokin offers a wide range of filters including ones for colour correction. Their most popular filters are the ND and ND graduated filters, diffraction and diffusion filters, polarizers, etc.
Cokin also offers different versions for each filter system, labelled A for amateur, P for professional and X-Pro for larger cameras/lenses. The amateur filters are about 67mm wide whereas the X-pro are 130mm wide.
Firstly if photography has been your hobby (or worse yet, your profession) for a couple of years now and you’re still calling them Polarizing Lenses, you’re doing it wrong! The beginners and less informed have an excuse but I’m here to set you straight. There’s no such thing. Well, not in the photographic sense anyway. […]
The big secret of getting that ghostly and ethereal look in landscape photography is that there is no big secret. In fact it’s even easier if you’re shooting on the coast provided you follow a few basic guidelines. Here is what you need to know for your next coast landscape shoot. DSC_0053-2 by Rob_Wood, on […]
A common problem for landscape photographers is shooting during overcast conditions in which the cloud cover is effectively a light source. White or bright overcast cloud throws up the issue that the ground and the sky require two different settings in order to expose both properly. Expose for the ground and you get a washed […]
Before digital photography and post production on computers, you picked film for the outcome of image you wanted. For neutral, run of the mill shots any conventional color film would do the trick, but for move vibrant and saturated images, you would choose something like Fuji Velvia slide film or my personal favorite, Kodak E-100 […]