Lens Camera Filter

Lens Camera Filter

Knowing your Different Camera filters

When I was a newbie I always wonder why a efficiently taken picture can give the impression of being so full of impact. I wanted to take a picture that have colors are bright or a sunset that almost feels humid, a sky that is so lucid and blue or even a portrait shot that look so mild and soft.

The secret behind this professionally taken picture is the smart use of the filters. A lens filter in film photography is attached to the front of a lens. The illumination of light passing to the camera is affected by the filter and these results to different effects in the ending image. The D-SLR cameras still uses physical filters and this allows for better manage of the effects of the filters.

If you are using a DSLR camera, here are few descriptions of some general photography filters that you can apply to generate exciting effects

If you are using a camera with threaded lens, a UV filter will be approximately necessary to keep on your camera all the time. It is a colorless filter and its function is to maintain the ultraviolet light and dropping the atmospheric haze to capture the images clearly.

Polarising filter gives you deep, rich and high contrast colors. The polarizing filter removes out the reflections by preventing light from a specific angle from passing through to the camera’s film. It enhances the image by deepening the colors and it’s also useful in shooting through surface of water and glasses which are reflective.

ND filters or natural density filters reduces the amount of light that passes the camera’s sensor without touching/affecting anything else such as color. This allows you to create special effects such as slow shutter speed. The ND filter is useful if you want to balance the light approaching from the sky. With ND filter, it reduces the amount of light and slow shutter speed to create effects

Every now and then your films can appear dry on a cloudy day. Your camera may capture an image that can appear overwhelming. Warming filters help to add a little warmth for a more desirable effect. Sometimes strong warming filters can give that additional touch to a bright sunset.

Cooling filters is the opposite of warm filters and are less or frequently used by us photographers. Cooling filters add saturation and impact to a boring sky. A Blue filter can give you a cool, cloudy morning feeling

The Soft-Filter are less common filters which is great for portraiture, Intensifying Filter increases the individual color saturation and Infrared Filters increases the special effects of infrared energy to create strange light effects especially on green foliages

About the Author

Las Vegas PhotographerJasper Ferrer started his photography at the age of 19, He lives in Las Vegas and anywhere he goes, he brings his camera and start taking event pictures. Visit his blog at Las Vegas Photography for updates. Check out his Las Vegas Commercial Photography featuring food, architecture, advertising and trade-show portraits.

how do you attach filters to a camera lens? I just sorta pushed it and turned it a bit and it is staying on?

but it will turn 360 degrees. How can I tell if it is securely attached? Also, I ave a uv filter and a polarizing filter - can i put both on at the same time? thanks!

Standard filters literally screw on to the proper sized lens. The rule is that you twist, hand-tight, until they stop twisting. That way, they won't lock on and can be removed.

And as for having the two filters on, you can, but with the UV kept on all the time for the protection of the lens. Remember, the polarizing filter is designed to spin for proper polarization (you'll see the effect through your viewfinder) so it might be trickier to remove.

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