N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

Help me buy… ND filters

If you’re in need of the best ND filter, then you’re in luck. We’ve rounded up the best neutral density filters to help you find the perfect one for your needs. Landscape and cityscape photography can benefit hugely from long exposures, which will smooth out water, get rid of any wandering pedestrians and capture beautiful light trails. But photographers will often find that there’s too much light in their scene with a bare lens.

Using a narrow aperture, such as f/22, and setting a low ISO can be enough to help you achieve a slow enough shutter speed. However, sometimes the best option is to artificially cut down the amount of light coming through the lens with a neutral density filter.

But it’s not as simple as randomly picking a filter and hoping for the best. For the best chance

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