B & W Filters - Question

[William W]

I said it's a simple ND Software Filter via a Plugin feature - and better than nothing, when you've forgotten your ND Filter for real onto the Lens. You seem to always need to profile yourself.

Yes: It was clear what was written in Post #29.

Yes: I am au fait with the Nik Software.

No: I do NOT ‘always need to profile myself’, whatever that means and it does appear to be a personal comment.

Post #30 was in response to Post #29. It cites four examples of how the Nik Software canNOT replace an ND Filter - and therefore does NOT “do the job”.

Therefore, for those four uses, the Nik Software is NOT “better than nothing when you’ve forgotten your ND Filter”, but it is exactly the same as: ‘nothing’.

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[ASIDE]:

Marc,

I suppose that there are various interpretations of what CiC is all about, but for me -

The CiC Forum is "A Learning Community For Photographers" and many people read these conversations. There is a lot of misinformation published on the internet. Each day, in my professional and also my business life, I come into contact with people who expound misinformation they've directly gained from the internet.

Any member who addresses points of inaccuracy or factoids injected into a conversation here at CiC provides a service to the Forum’s Membership and the other people who anonymously read these pages: doing so goes to maintaining the integrity of the conversations and the accuracy of the information published here at CiC.

CiC is a Forum which is held in high esteem in many parts of the world and is often referenced.

Indeed one specific attribute of CiC is the almost the non existence of adversarial conversations and personal jibes.

Conversely, what is obvious and noticeable at CiC is the collegiate and collaborative nature of the building of a conversation by adding more information, which is often well outside the scope of the original opening post.

It would not be satisfactory for a beginner reading this conversation to take away “The only filter you can't really mimic originally by software, is the Polarizer Filter”.

If that statement were taken away from this conversation as a fact, then the beginner, novice or anyone ignorant of ND Filters and their many uses might indeed remain ignorant of the MANY uses of an ND Filter.

Moreover, in that ignorance, that person might conclude that anything that an ND Filter could do - could also be done in Post Production: which of course is not correct.

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If you think that by continuing the topic of conversation about ND Filters and the Nik Software and later specifically citing four examples of how (any) Post Production can specifically NOT produce the results that using and ND Filter can produce, is somehow: “always needing to profile yourself” - then, you are very much mistaken.

It is simply to be in accord with the raison d'être of this Site.

WW

[William W]

. . . It is interesting how the deep blue affects the green in the color chart but not so much on the green apple verses the blue filter (with the blue having a lessor effect).

Added to Mike's Post #36 -

Prima facie: It is because there is a lot more YELLOW in the Green APPLE, than in the Green Swatch on the COLOUR CHART.

WW