Cokin Nuances Extreme GND ND16 Soft 4 F Stops X Serie

Cokin Nuances Extreme GND ND16 Soft 4 F Stops X Serie | Balance bright skies and darker foregrounds

Without a graduated filter, balancing a bright sky against darker ground often means letting one part of the scene lose detail. The Cokin Nuances Extreme GND ND16 Soft 4 F Stops X Serie is made to reduce that difference across part of the frame, rather than darkening the whole image. It suits landscape photographers who want to keep a bright sky and a darker foreground in balance in one composition. Think open landscapes, coastlines or other scenes where the sky takes up a significant part of the frame. A graduated filter is most useful when the brightness change falls in a place where you can position its transition without cutting across an important subject. It gives you a practical way to manage contrast at capture, while keeping the rest of the scene unaffected by the filter’s darkening.

At a glance

• Graduated neutral density filter
• ND16 density, rated at four stops
• Soft transition
• X Series

Using the graduated area

Compose with the bright and dark parts of the scene in mind, then position the transition where their tones meet. Take care around trees, buildings and ridgelines: a transition crossing a prominent subject can make its brightness look uneven.

Technical Specifications

• Filter type: Graduated neutral density
• Density: ND16
• Exposure reduction: 4 stops
• Transition: Soft
• Series: X Serie