{"id":7779,"date":"2010-02-19T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/19\/cpl-gnd-stack\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:24:01","slug":"cpl-gnd-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/19\/cpl-gnd-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"CPL + GND stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was remarking to Matt over MSN the other afternoon that of the lot of lens filters I\u2019ve got, the GND \u2013 graduated neutral density \u2013 one hardly ever gets used. The filter is a bit of a last resort if you are facing an over light bright sky and can\u2019t recover sky detail naturally or with a circular polarizer. The graduation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marumi-international.com\/english\/aboutus_en\/aboutus_en.html\">Marumi GND<\/a> filter I\u2019ve got seems to have a semi-abrupt transition between the hard and soft edge i.e. there isn\u2019t much of a gradual blend, The pictures taken in a composition with extreme contrasting in broad daylight can look a little funny, so I\u2019ve avoided using the GND filter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-DSC_6447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/blogDSC_6447.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-DSC_6447\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In any case, I decided to bring it out one early morning just to have some fun with it and to try it out stacked with other filters. I had the Marumi GND stacked with a B+W CPL and on my Sigma 10-20mm. Severe vignetting on the widest end \u2013 no surprises there \u2013 and the usable images only started at about 13mm onwards. Here\u2019s a quickie shot taken:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-DSC_6445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/blogDSC_6445.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-DSC_6445\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks real odd LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was remarking to Matt over MSN the other afternoon that of the lot of lens filters I\u2019ve got, the GND \u2013 graduated neutral density \u2013 one hardly ever gets used. The filter is a bit of a last resort<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/19\/cpl-gnd-stack\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  CPL + GND stack<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-toys-technology","tag-d300","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}