What filter to use????

[peety3]

1)Is there a lens filter you would suggest using for outdoor shots? I have a little issue with colors not being as deep as I would like with some whitewash occuring, in bright lights.


This is especially shown in some tennis tournaments I shot. I would just like a little more skin tone depth. Also with blue sky's in shooting scenic.


Shooting with a 30d and ef 28-135mm IS lens.

Lots of good suggestions already. I'd add that setting a manual white balance, either by preset or by gray card, might help a lot if you aren't already, and that's one of the advantages of RAW (more latitude to fix WB in post). Pushing your WB a little higher than ambient can add some nice warmth.

3) Does anyone have any input on the new 18-135 efs lens which comes on the 7d. Is it as good or better than the ef 28-135, picture quality? I know the 28-135 issupposed to have one aspheric element.

Wider-range zooms tend to be worse than smaller-range zooms (which tend to be worse than primes...). Unless the 18-135 is significantly more expensive (i.e. they have money with which to make up for wide-range shortcomings) than the 28-135, I'd stay far, far away.

[coastalkid88]

I would truly suggest that you only by polorizers and neutral density filters as new software development with programs like Tiffen DFX2 you should be able to do most of the filter correction work in post processing our studio has used this software extensively it has tons of presets and you cam make custom filter to suite your need

Good luck

Coastal Kid