The Tiffen Image Maker Graduated Filter Kit gives you the ability to produce images that would not normally be achievable without filtration. These filters offer a gradual transition of colour and light balance. You will be able to create images that can either enhance the true nature of the scenario or enter a realm of "departure from reality".

Clear/Cool Blue Soft Edge Filter
This filter is designed to add an element of colour or drama to an image. The overall tint that this filter provides can be used to add a feeling of emotion, romance, time or place to your photos. It starts clear and gradually transitions to a cool blue tint.

Clear/Straw Soft Edge Filter

This filter is designed to add an element of colour or drama to an image. The overall tint that this filter provides can be used to add a feeling of emotion, romance, time or place to your photos. It starts clear and gradually transitions to a yellow tint.

Colour Graduated 0.9 Soft Edge Filter
This filter allows the photographer to adjust exposure without affecting colour balance. Neutral density filters are available in 1, 2, 3 or 4 stops to suit individual situations. It is often necessary or desirable to balance the light intensity of one part of a scene with another. This is particularly true in situations where you do not have complete control over lighting, such as in bright and contrasting landscapes.

Exposing for the foreground will produce a washed-out and overexposed sky, whilst exposing for the sky will leave the foreground dark and underexposed. This filter allows you to keep cloud details properly exposed in the image.

Determining which graduated neutral density filter gives the best results for a given lighting situation requires knowledge, experience and a collection of these filters. Choose the filter strength that adjusts the lighting to remain within the exposure latitude (greatest difference between light/dark values) that still shows detail in the digital medium or film used.

Generally, the 2-stop value (ND 0.6 - the clear part of the filter allows 4 times more light to pass than the darkest part) effectively compensates for average bright sky to foreground situations, and the soft transition is more often applicable to a scene than the hard transition.

Note: The Soft or Hard label indicates the degree of colour graduation


Neutral density filters have four main uses


- To allow the use of slow shutter speeds, particularly with high-sensitivity films, to record the movement of subjects such as waterfalls, clouds or cars
- To decrease depth of field by allowing the use of wider apertures, which helps to separate subjects from their background
- To decrease the effective ISO of high-sensitivity films (above 400 ISO) and allow their use outdoors in bright situations
- To allow film and video cameras (which have fixed shutter speeds) to film subjects such as snow, sand or other bright scenes that might cause overexposure


Neutral density factors


- ND.3 (exposure adjustment = 1 stop, reduces ISO by 1/2)
- ND.6 (exposure adjustment = 2 stops, reduces ISO by 1/4)
- ND.9 (exposure adjustment = 3 stops, reduces ISO by 1/8)


Specifications