A guide to Aurora photography
This is a guest post written by Bud Kunzeli, Bud lives in Alaska and have been shooting Northen lights for years. He was kind enough to write this essay highlighting the most important aspect of Aurora Photography. Bud’s work can be viewed at http://www.pbase.com/santa
There are very few people who have more opportunity to view Northern Lights than those of us living in Central and Northern Alaska. I shoot the lights. A lot. I shoot for 6 hours or more some nights. Some nights they are out 5 minutes. Other nights, 5 hours. Sometimes it’s chilly.
Polarizer: Another must have filter !
I have previously categorized the Neutral Density filter as a “must have filter for any landscape photographer lover. And the reason was that it is one of the rare filters which effect cannot be reproduced in the digital darkroom.
Polarizers would be the other filters fitting that description.
What does a Polarizer do?
Why I never bought a ND Grad filter
Photo by BlueJeff
Earlier this month I have described the Neutral Density Filters as being a must have tool for any landscape photographer, and I was not surprised at all when I got comments that if Neutral Density Filters are important for landscape photography Graduated ND filters should be even more important.
So why didn’t I ever invested in one ?
Why are white lenses … white ?
Photo by seekyu
God knows how many times I’ve read this question in photography equipment forums “Why are most Canon L lenses white?” or “Can’t Canon give me a black L lens?” etc…
Well first of all there are quite few Canon L lenses that are black and second Canon is not the only manufacturer that “offers” white lenses. Lenses are white for a reason.
Why Lenses are white?
Neutral Density Filters: What are they & when to use them ?
Photo by tico_bassie
A few days ago I was shooting when someone passing by stopped to ask me “what are all these pieces of glass you put in front of the lens?” ” ((“This is a translated version of the question” ))” so this got me thinking that maybe some of adidap’s readers are not familiar with filters either! So today I will be writing about Neutral Density Filters, aka ND Filters, not to be confused with Graduated Neutral Density filters, or ND Grad filters ” ((“I will write about those later”))”.
