Let's talk about graduated filters and filters in general

13 years 5 months ago #4829 by Jackie
So I'm kind of new to photography compared to most of you. I would like to hear your thoughts on the importance of using graduated filters or any filter on a camera when you can just make the same changes in Photoshop after wards? What are the pro's and con's to not using filters and relying on Photoshop?

Thanks!


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13 years 5 months ago #4846 by Screamin Scott
With the exception of ND (regular & graduated) & Polarizing filters, most of the other filters effects can be duplicated. ND's allow you to use slower shutter speeds to create the soft, dreamy effect on moving water that would be kind of hard to do in post processing . Polarizers cut out glare & reflections from non metallic surfaces (think window reflections) which can't be duplicated in post. Another filer that falls in this category is an IR pass filter (like the Hoya R72) which allows most cameras to capture IR images. There are IR effect filters in many software programs but their effect doesn't match true IR. Although I don't normally use filters as "protection" for my lenses, in some situations I do (blowing sand/sea spray comes to mind). One other point I'd make is using filters also cuts down post processing time later.

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13 years 5 months ago #4860 by ShadowWalker
If a simple filter can save you XX amount of time in post processing, that makes all the sense I need.


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