The Mind Has Shifted

Landscape photography is a wonderful art - if you find people make you uncomfortable but are quite willing to be cold, hot, tired, thirsty, and sore. And far away from home. Heck, with attractions like that you might as well join the Marines... If the idea of Parris Island doesn't appeal, by all means take your tripod, camera, several lenses, and half a dozen filters and head for the landscape. The tripod, camera, and lenses are obvious, but the filters may be a fresh idea for beginners. I mean, hasn't digital photography done away with red and yellow and green filters? Yes, by and large it has, but it has not lost the need for polarising filters, neutral density filters, graduated neutral density filters, and various colour temperature changers*. The half a dozen can increase to a dozen if you have several lenses in operation. Don't curse yourself with a backpack full of plastic boxes and nylon slip cases. Take the filters out of the factory packaging and put them into the MindShift Filter Nest. Space for eight separate filters and a colour-coding system up the top edge to help you remember what you put where. There's a separate protective flap inside the case on the removable filter rack, but there's also a weather-resistant zipper on the main box. You can free up sace in the backpack by slipping the Filter Nest case onto a belt loop. Climbing, descending, hauling is tough work when you are landscape shooting - if you are going to be the photographic pack mule, make it easy on yourself. Every little convenience and piece of weight saved means you can spend a longer time out there in the good light. * Yup. I know you can shift the colour temperature all you want in the computer with the sliders, but if you want it to be subtly differnt in different areas of your composition, you can sometimes do it as you shoot.