cpl or ND filters for landscape?

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If you could only have one what would it be a set of ND filters (2 grads and 2 full) or a circular polariser?
 
Personally CPL - its effects cannot be reproduced in PP, whereas you can use multiple exposures to do roughly the same as a grad.
A CPL also acts as a sort-of gentle ND ;)
 
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i would take the nd filters personally, depends on what your taking pics of and what strength nd's they are maybe?
 
I would prob go for the Nd's if it was me, if your doing landscapes etc that you want to blur the water without it blowing the whites in it you wont be able to do it with a cpl.

I found it much easier to get shots i was after using Nd filter rather than doing it pp, if your good with pp it might sway you one way or the other :thumbs:
 
Polariser :thumbs:
 
CPL first, ND grads second, ND filters last (and only if the ND grads aren't large enough to double up as full ND filters).
 
99% of the time I use no filter and try to get the exposure right so I can add filters in lightroom if needed (not that I do add them often). The other 1% its a polariser but pictures with a polariser have a particular look to them that I'm not keen on so polariser use really is that rare for me :)
 
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