Welding glass, your ND solution!

[Dylan & Marianne]

An interesting alternative to an expensive 10 stop ND filter !

Welding Glass ND

not sure if I'm game to try but it wouldn't be a very expensive experiment hehe

[Watchamacallit]

Now that is very interesting...

Wonder if anyone will get it into one of those cokin filters? Anyone here game enough to try? :P

[SnowA]

Ingenious!

[SnowA]

I'm going to give this a go, just for the hell of it.

[Dylan & Marianne]

for a few bucks why not!

[RaoulIsidro]

What a brilliant idea!

[old dog]

I`ll be getting one....for a few bucks, why not.

[Burnman]

I have tried the welding glass "Big Stopper" concept:
Found a reseller in Ireland that I purchased 3x 104x94mm welding glass screens (8 10 and 12 rating) for a total of $14 incl postage!
Good news is they do work really well - bad news is they have a very heavy green colour cast. If you convert your images to B+W this is not much of an issue. I will be getting a big stopper (If I can find one!) however but the concept is a good one..
Here are some examples with the welding glass:WeldingGlass-1.jpgWeldingGlassBW-1.jpg

[nimrodisease]

This is not such a bad idea.... ebay here I come.

[Duane Pipe]

My attempt in 2004.

http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...m-the-archives

[Ezookiel]

Would you be able to alter the WB if you shoot in RAW, sufficiently to get any kind of real colours back, or is this only ever going to be a B&W thing?

[Arg]

Would you be able to alter the WB if you shoot in RAW, sufficiently to get any kind of real colours back, or is this only ever going to be a B&W thing?

It's hard enough getting real colours back in a jpeg when shooting outdoors with WB accidentally set to Tungsten!

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Taking off my sillyboy hat, you could try Custom WB in-camera, then at least you can get a preview of the likely colour balance.

Have you tried that Bernie? Any luck?

[jamesridley]

no worries

[Duane Pipe]

I opened my image in photo shop raw and this is as close as I could get to a blue sky all the tight area's have a blue tint.

[N*A*M]

nice!

doesn't qualify as "neutral density" if it throws a colour cast though. but certainly opens up a distinct creative look.

[SteveInNZ]

Would you be able to alter the WB if you shoot in RAW, sufficiently to get any kind of real colours back, or is this only ever going to be a B&W thing?

This was taken through welding glass with a cloudy WB and then WB adjusted in ACR. At the bottom of the clothes line is a bit of teflon plumbers tape which is an excellent white reference.


Washing Line by stevetla, on Flickr

and this one was done by shooting a white paper bag and doing an in-camera custom WB. It's pretty much as it came straight from the camera.


Merry-Go-Round (ND13) by stevetla, on Flickr


Steve