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Bracket photos vs using Grad ND filter?


4 years 5 months ago #664864 by Street Shark
I just wanted to see what others preference was when faced with a frame with a wide dynamic range?  Will you bracket your photo or use a grad ND filter?  
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4 years 5 months ago #664865 by Nikon Shooter
Years ago, I invested in an expensive kit grads
and sold it soon after I realised the unnatural
way it rendered my work. Since then, I opted
for the bracketing approach.

The D850 we share is doing a great job at this.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 5 months ago #664867 by garyrhook

Street Shark wrote: I just wanted to see what others preference was when faced with a frame with a wide dynamic range?  Will you bracket your photo or use a grad ND filter?  


There are plenty of situations where one may be faced with a wide dynamic range, where a graduated ND filter will not work. One would have no recourse other than bracketing.
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4 years 5 months ago #664868 by effron
No preference, I do both when I can.....
Why so serious?
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4 years 5 months ago #664879 by fmw

Street Shark wrote: I just wanted to see what others preference was when faced with a frame with a wide dynamic range?  Will you bracket your photo or use a grad ND filter?  


I prefer to use HDR.  Bracketing won't affect the dynamic range.  It only affects the exposure.  Personally I have never owned or used a graduated filter of any kind.
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4 years 5 months ago #664884 by effron

fmw wrote: I prefer to use HDR.  Bracketing won't affect the dynamic range.  It only affects the exposure. 


I'm curious, how do you do the HDR?
Why so serious?
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4 years 5 months ago #664918 by Overread
Yep, time and place for each.  Most of the time, I’ll try to get away with the filters, however when to wide of dynamic range, bracket is the answer. 
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4 years 5 months ago #664941 by fmw
HDR (high dynamic range imaging) involves taking more than one exposure at different values from a tripod mounted camera and then combining them in software.  Most photo editing programs have an HDR function. 

An simple example would be making two exposures of a landscape subject.  One shot would expose for the sky and the other for the rest of the subject.  When they are combined, both the sky and and the rest are in proper exposure.
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4 years 5 months ago #665021 by Pat White
You get more dynamic range with the bracketing right? 
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4 years 5 months ago #665023 by Nikon Shooter

Pat White wrote: You get more dynamic range with the bracketing right? 



Say, Pat, that a scene covers 18 stops of DR and your sensor
is capable of 14. Shooting for the highlights and for the lows
in two shots will permit you to capture all the DR with the
bracketing approach.

Using a graduated filter will restrict, contain, the 18 stops with-
in the capabilities of the sensor but that will come to a cost.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 5 months ago #665026 by effron
That's true, but near dusk and dawn there's usually not that much DR, and filters normally work well enough.
My question to fmw was asking how else to do a real HDR without bracketing....Maybe its a terminology issue?
Why so serious?
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4 years 5 months ago #665083 by Tim Dordeck
Depends on how much time I have and situation.  Ideally to get it as close as I can, I'll do both.  Bracket the shot with the reverse grad or grad ND in place.  
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4 years 5 months ago #665131 by Jessy Page
I bracket my shots, just because I have been working on trying to increase DR. 
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4 years 5 months ago #665240 by Roy Wilson
Another for bracketing
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