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Did you ever ask yourself why can we look at the sun during sunrise and sunset while it is too bright to look at during mid-day?\u00a0 See the illustration below. It is all about the Atmosphere being a powerful filter, and the distance the light travels through the filtering atmospheric layers.<\/p>\n
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A similar effect takes place when using a neutral density (ND) filter on a wide angle lens:\u00a0 the distance traveled by objects at the far ends is much greater than frontal objects, thus causing vignetting.<\/p>\n
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Hence the darker corners.<\/p>\n
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Shot with Fotoman 617 using Apo Symmar 150mm f5.6, B+W 3.0 stops MRC filter on Color negative film. Available at www.yaalherman.com<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions?<\/strong><\/p>\n Did you ever ask yourself why can we look at the sun during sunrise and sunset while it is too bright to look at during mid-day?\u00a0 See the illustration below. It is all about the Atmosphere being a powerful filter, and the distance the light travels through the filtering atmospheric layers. A similar effect takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n