I want to improve my landscape photography and I'm off to Iceland for 10 days soon so I thought I should look at getting a filter system. The major players in the UK seem to be Lee, Hitech and Cokin.
I have a 7DII and Canon EF-S10-18, EF-S 15-85 and 70-300L. I guess I'm going to need a 100m system so I can use the wide angle.
I understand that both Cokin and Hitech can impart a colour cast under some circumstances but Lee is very expensive.
So I have several questions:
1) Under normal circumstances am I going to notice the colour cast? For an amatuer like myself do I really need to spend lee filter prices.
2) I already have polarsing filters. How practical is it to mount the filter adapter when the lens has a polarising filter on it as well - I appreciate how awkward this could be having to roate the polariser then reset the position of the grads but polarising filters for 100mm systems seem to be in the order of £200+ which seems a bit excessive.
3) What grads should I go for. I read that hard is better when working with a crop sensor should I get just hard or both hard and soft. I was thinking that a two stop and a three stop would suffice. I guess that the effect of a one stop could be easily recreated in LR.
I know some poeple will suggest braketing and combining in LR or PS. That is what I have done up until now but the other guys I am going with get great results with filters and it's one less procesing step, not to mention a whole heap of less card/disk space.
I would very much appreicate any input.
NB when I refer to Hitech I am talking about the standard range not the Firecrest which are even more expensive than Lee.
Thanks.
I have a 7DII and Canon EF-S10-18, EF-S 15-85 and 70-300L. I guess I'm going to need a 100m system so I can use the wide angle.
I understand that both Cokin and Hitech can impart a colour cast under some circumstances but Lee is very expensive.
So I have several questions:
1) Under normal circumstances am I going to notice the colour cast? For an amatuer like myself do I really need to spend lee filter prices.
2) I already have polarsing filters. How practical is it to mount the filter adapter when the lens has a polarising filter on it as well - I appreciate how awkward this could be having to roate the polariser then reset the position of the grads but polarising filters for 100mm systems seem to be in the order of £200+ which seems a bit excessive.
3) What grads should I go for. I read that hard is better when working with a crop sensor should I get just hard or both hard and soft. I was thinking that a two stop and a three stop would suffice. I guess that the effect of a one stop could be easily recreated in LR.
I know some poeple will suggest braketing and combining in LR or PS. That is what I have done up until now but the other guys I am going with get great results with filters and it's one less procesing step, not to mention a whole heap of less card/disk space.
I would very much appreicate any input.
NB when I refer to Hitech I am talking about the standard range not the Firecrest which are even more expensive than Lee.
Thanks.