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I'm after a set of reverse grads! 100mm lee/hitech size and possibly 165mm versions!
Who makes what and how good??
Who makes what and how good??
Reverse soft grads.... Which ones?
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Reverse soft doesn't make very much practical sense when you can just finetune a shot in Lightroom and Photoshop as you please in a couple of clicks.
Reverse hard are slightly more common but still very niche and not really needed by most landscape shooters. Singh Ray and Hitech would be the most likely manufacturers, but even then speaking from experience I'd just use a normal grad and finish off the job in Lightroom.
Reverse hard are slightly more common but still very niche and not really needed by most landscape shooters. Singh Ray and Hitech would be the most likely manufacturers, but even then speaking from experience I'd just use a normal grad and finish off the job in Lightroom.
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I've already got soft and hard grads but vignetting in the top corners make for black under exposed sky in corners so figured for sunrise/set to expose sun correctly and clear corners would achieve this with reverse grads! Will probably get hitech ones as lee don't make them! I don't use PS but use Lightroom but prefer SOOC better
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"Black" corners will not be solved by grad. You need to thin up your filter setup if possible and then apply lens profile correct to finish the fix. While the grad will "fix" problem in one area, it will make others worse. In the end you are no better off.
Another side effect of reverse grad would be very deep darkening of the top edge of your foreground / land / horizon. It will be just tolerable if it is seascape, and quite severe if horizon is uneven, ie. cityscapes or mountainous scenery.
My advice is to get the exposure within the usable ballpark by using whatever you've got and then using software to make it as you want. You can't buy different grads for all shapes and forms of landscape.