The Landscape Photography Book

You’ll Need a Graduated ND Filter

There are two ND (neutral density) filters that are mainstays with landscape photographers and this one, the neutral density gradient filter (simply called an “ND Grad” in landscape circles), is probably the most important of the two because it helps you overcome a sensor weakness. When you’re shooting landscapes, particularly during the day, because of the limited range of light that our cameras’ sensors can capture, your camera will either properly expose for the foreground, or for the sky, but it doesn’t have enough range to do both at once. So, you’re going to have to either make the foreground look right ...