The project for Day 5 is to "practise using ND grad filters at sunrise or sunset. Shoot the scene with and without them and study how this affects your results."
The results of my shoots are below:
without ND grad
with ND grad 3
I think of all the tutorials so far, this is the one that shows the most dramatic results. This is the first time I've used an ND grad, I've never even got around to buying a holder for it! I really like the results though, so will be using one more often. You can really see the detail of the clouds in this shot while the foreground stays in good exposure. Not only that, but you can actually see the sunset (this is the same series of shots I took for the last tutorial), so I am quite pleased I did actually record a sunset. Normally to get this level of detail in the sky I would have to select the sky in Photoshop and adjust the levels independent of the rest of the image. In this case, however, I just tweaked the exposure (a bit underexposed) in Camera Raw and that was it. I'm now a fan of ND grads!
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