ND Filters? What Are They? ND Filters Explained for Beginners

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ND filters can instantly make your photos and videos look more professional, BUT what is an ND Filter? AND what does it do? If you are a Photographer or Videographer then this video explained exactly why you need one to take your skills to the next level.
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@moristar 4 жыл бұрын

Super important application for ND filters in videography to achieve film looks is to use a common trick with setting your shutter speed to one over double of your FPS (24, 25 or sometimes 30 FPS for cinema look) - so like 1/50 or 1/60. This allows smooth motion blur, but will most likely be overexposed, so here is where ND filter comes into play and saves the day!

@tashdid316 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Learned something new!

@Jofoyo 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, this seems like a much more practical use case than shown in the demo. I was wondering why he would need a ND f in his demonstration when he could still just adjust the exposure. But I can see some other use cases where lowering exposure wouldn't be enough.

@reticulating_splines 9 ай бұрын

ooh, i'm just getting into video and am always trying to do the 24fps / 50 shutter motion blur trick but generally can't because.. yeah.. no ND filter.. THANK YOU

@joshgomez8239 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, that’s helpful 😊

@RealJayMelon 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for being informative without shouting out a sponsor and going straight to the point

@SourceAwareness 3 жыл бұрын

👍 Thanks again, Steve! The beard looks great on you here, and I love the gorgeous landscapes you often film in. Learning much from you, brother. Peace and blessings to you and all.

@jwnedved Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! Great instruction, as always! Would love to see you do a follow-up to this one that covers ND and polarizing filters on GoPro and iPhones.

@nagraj.n411 Жыл бұрын

Precisely the information i needed. Thanks a lot.

@bashconsole 3 жыл бұрын

Was looking for ND filter info and this video exactly what I needed. Second time your videos were helpful. Subscribed.

@EXPLOREWITHSAYAN 3 жыл бұрын

You are the inspiration of all travel video makers. Thanks a lot for your awesome tips 😍

@rishabhbala7869 3 жыл бұрын

You are such a amazing person. Always have something to learn from your video. Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge.

@FilmwColleen 5 ай бұрын

This is a great video! Very informative and beginner friendly

@staxe54 4 жыл бұрын

Very informative, well explained. Thank you

@quianhvlogs8092 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your guiding, it is so helpful

@jeremyzapsmash 3 ай бұрын

thank you. I got my answer. straight and to the point. well made video!

@AbdulHameedM 3 жыл бұрын

I am learning so many news things from you. Thank you so much for all your tips. Subscribed 😊

@bkfinest006 2 жыл бұрын

Only video that made sense to me, thanks!

@aerialdronepilation483 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the guide. Now I know that I need to buy filters for my drone cam to reduce exposures. This will help me a lot especially during sunny days

@j.mahoney1178 5 ай бұрын

The simple explanation is always the best teacher, thanks.

@1monagale 2 жыл бұрын

Learning from a pro! Thanks 😊

@ikigaiWellnessLLC 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video. The content you put out is very easy to follow and incredibly informative. That being said, I am looking for a starter setup to make promo videos for massage, competition disc golf, rock climbing, among other hobbies. You mentioned Polar Pro for smartphone filters, are there any other mobile-phone setups you may recommend?

@Pursnikity_20022 2 жыл бұрын

On point. Now I understand, thank you very much for this.

@onlygoodvibes7064 2 жыл бұрын

That is an explanation ! thank you !

@johnlieabalde8293 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much bro...i have idea for you videos today..

@MehdiASMR 4 жыл бұрын

i love your Videos. Your Explaination is so clear that i don't need to ask something :D

@subhajitdutta4106 4 жыл бұрын

Great...straight to the point.

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

That’s my style subhajit dutta 👌

@LukOfficial Жыл бұрын

best way explained thank you will use this for my Dj Videos :)

@AJVLlaxus90 4 жыл бұрын

i really like ur channel..i got many ideas from you..somehow i try to mimic your style into my channel but in my version n my language..goodjob sir

@khaitrong5622 2 жыл бұрын

best explanation of ND filter i've seen

@Lazy_eXplorr 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing contant... thanks for the guide..... waiting for your new video... love you bro...❤️❤️❤️

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks ADRINALE kunal, glad you enjoyed the video. Lots more coming soon

@EarthUncutTV Жыл бұрын

Always love it when you type a query into KZfaq and Steve's at the top of the search results! :D

@LearnOnlineVideo Жыл бұрын

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the KZfaq algorithm for your search results 😀👌

@dhaferbaker 4 жыл бұрын

Always love your videos and the way you explain things Steve! Keep up the good work

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daf, I really appreciate your kind words. Lots more content on the way, stay tuned

@villagecooking555 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again Steve

@mikeworshipx2000 12 күн бұрын

Very useful

@raoufkrigah4041 4 жыл бұрын

Sir you just get one more subscriber yah. 😀 You doing a great job. 👍

@locationsforyou6572 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful vlog . Very informative. I make virtual walk video from my iPhone so Can you please suggest me which lens I should get. Wide angle lens or anamorphic lens . Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thank you 🙏

@Jiujitsuexpert 3 ай бұрын

lol love the shoe shot!

@megatronopera Жыл бұрын

Question for you. For your particular example, why couldn't you just crank the shutter speed up to a level that reduces the exposure enough for your aperture to be lower?

@Dav1d286 11 ай бұрын

This is what I’m trying to understand also, can anyone help?

@fabianj6008 11 ай бұрын

I wanna know too I was thinking the same !!!!

@megatronopera 11 ай бұрын

@@fabianj6008 i actually know the answer now. On a day with tons of light you actually can crank the shutter speed up to allow for a really wide aperture. But one situation where you may want a lower shutter speed would be when you are trying to capture long exposure photos, for example if you are trying to take a photo of a waterfall and have the water look milky and smooth you might set the shutter speed to half a second. But if you do this in bright daylight you will have to up your aperture to compensate for how much light gets in. But if you use an ND filter you can have your cake and eat it too. It allows you to capture photos at a lower aperture, with a slow shutter speed in very bright light.

@fabianj6008 11 ай бұрын

@@megatronopera very well explained! Is this the case for when one wants to do rolling shots of cars on a sunny day?

@jonathanschober1032 8 ай бұрын

I was just at the beach yesterday taking some photos, and max 1/4000 shutter speed and Aperture of 1.8 and ISO 100 still had things over exposed. I was forced to close the aperture

@InadnaYASA 3 жыл бұрын

just wondering. why not just decrease the shutter speed to avoid overexposure ??

@zacklarez Жыл бұрын

I was curious of the same thing. By "decrease" I assume you mean use a faster shutter speed? I'm also curious.

@Kieennny Жыл бұрын

If you decrease the shutter speed you will get a still image. The purpose of nd filters is that you can have long exposure photos with out decreasing the shutter speed.

@ShotBySoutoo Жыл бұрын

@@Kieennny and also for video, you want to use the double of the frame rate to your shutter speed. Example: shooting at 24fps, you use 1/50. So during the day you need to use an ND filter.

@milohuikeshoven4411 Жыл бұрын

@@ShotBySoutoo and also to be able to open up your aperture, if you want bokeh, something like 1.8 is ideal but with video that's quite difficult

@huanliu6354 11 ай бұрын

@@zacklarezit's good for taking water features

@Tewahedo 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I don't need to see anymore ND Filters now.

@AVISIONMUSICTV Жыл бұрын

You could just lower your shutter speed but that all depends on what you're trying to achieve

@AndyArtDigital Жыл бұрын

This ND filters are more used to film than photo because there u cant low your shutter speed so u really need this to help

@ilhamakmal6558 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video 👍

@maringavideoprodutora168 4 жыл бұрын

Interessante demais o conteúdo! Imagine num local ensolarado como meu País, sem filtros não tem como conseguir boas imagens! (Too interesting the content! Imagine in a sunny place like my country, without filters there is no way to get good images!). Saudações amigo. Att. Roberto.

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Hey MARINGÁ VIDEO, it’s the opposite here in England! I filmed this video on a very sunny day, usually it is cold, cloudy and raining 🌧😀

@wondrreel 3 жыл бұрын

If a budget for gimbal or ND filters which one would you recommend is more ness to have

@lola-ye5cq 3 күн бұрын

Thanks

@emmagrey4029 4 жыл бұрын

I have this lens , it has an amazing quality.

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Great for the price ;-)

@alexhero888 4 жыл бұрын

Wowww very good filter this one very good

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Good for the price 👌

@YasirMangiVlog 4 жыл бұрын

Very informative

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Yasir Mangi, glad it helped

@YasirMangiVlog 4 жыл бұрын

@@LearnOnlineVideo yes of course dear

@RaxArtStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome The Rax Tech

@marcelozimm470 4 жыл бұрын

Hi in 0:26 you rotate and.. it seems it polarizes de light... is that right? I thought the NDF didnt do that...

@inthefade 11 ай бұрын

It’s so funny I was just asking my photographer friend if he ever used ND filters, and both of us with 10ish years of video/photography have always always been shooting in low light and never used them. It’s interesting how we all have different concerns and practices.

@ikamy 4 ай бұрын

WoW What a difference

@junglist8528 2 жыл бұрын

Noob question... Why cant you just raise the shutter speed on the first example?

@AvitalTheQueen Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Personally I would have preferred to see also the explanation about stops and the "x1000" for example.

@germanshepherd13 Жыл бұрын

agree but this vid was more for beginners...

@user-lk7vg9qq2p 3 жыл бұрын

감사합니다.

@eddievenuto1862 8 ай бұрын

A neutral density filter is for long exposures. Because if you take a photo one thirtieth, you will get a lot of bright images

@giorgosvintziGR 2 ай бұрын

Although I understand completely what you've said and why an ND filter is important, I don't understand why can't you just raise the shutter speed in that particular example, so that the image won't get bright. For photos of moving subjects with blurry backgrounds I understand that this is useful because, for example, if your taking a picture of a plane passing very fast in front of some scenery, you can put ISO in lowest value for less noise, shutter speed in 1/50th and aperture in f0.95 and that's where an ND filter will help. But in static objects where you don't need low shutter speed I don't understand the purpose of it

@artistborin 4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

No worries SATHYA OFFICEL , hope it help

@endless_universe2023 10 ай бұрын

dude, if you drop your camera most lenses will simply shatter (as the camera itself) and no ND will ever save them. ND will protect from situations when the lens cap is not on them and other objects (like keys or other metal) can scratch the lens (e.g. in the backpack). You can also simply lose the cap, the ND glass will also help in that case.

@NinPossible Жыл бұрын

What about the built-in ND filter? Does it work the same?

@MrSAARC 4 жыл бұрын

Nicely explained. Thanx for the detailed information

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome my friend :-)

@vickyray6042 8 ай бұрын

I have a doubt, it could have been compensated by using a higher shutter speed right, instead of using the ND filter in this case?

@jean-pierrejoubert9578 7 ай бұрын

Usually I would just increase my shutter speed? What difference does t make?

@pritamgrg1996 3 жыл бұрын

So nice sir your also video sir i am from 🇳🇵 nepal

@CANDUN121 2 жыл бұрын

Q, Most ND filter videos I have seen, show them being used on tripod mounted cameras, what about 'free style' hand held?

@Jordz711 Жыл бұрын

I was more so looking for an explanation about the numbers on the filters. Good video other than that..

@Xxstephenx1x 8 ай бұрын

So do nd filters have much of a use indoors i use my s23 for ebay and i sell jewlery so i often have artifical light that looks bad. Would a nd filter do anything to make it look better when i use the flash its almost too much.. and the pics look terrible.... i know nothing about photography by the way im trying to learn to up my ebay picture quality.

@dadikagaana2044 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dadi ka gaana

@runi2453 8 ай бұрын

Should i buy nd2 or nd4?

@zacklarez Жыл бұрын

In the shoe scenario, why couldn't you just use a faster shutter speed? Genuinely curious, I'm still relatively new.

@striderwhiston9897 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, you could just lower your shutter speed in this situation, however in long exposure photos you need an ND filter.

@doctort.quinlan4101 Жыл бұрын

On the shoe shot, why not just increase the shutter speed? Wouldn't that give you the same effect of the other result with the ND? I just don't see why its *necessary* in that situation. I can see why it is necessary for photographing waterfalls in daylight and with longer exposure of course, or any other situation where you have to keep the exposure longer. But is it useful for anything else?

@littleidols Жыл бұрын

Someone told me they like to use a flash use ND to control it.... Idk lol

@trikronika 11 ай бұрын

I recently had a situation where all surrounding light was so bright on f1.8 that I couldn’t properly control the exposure with just the shutter speed. ND filter is also very useful here, it gives me a little more play

@sudipdandapat3005 2 ай бұрын

Why not increase the shutter speed to the maximum; that way you would be letting in less light... someone explain?

@serghernandez4333 Жыл бұрын

So why not just raise the shutter speed???

@thomasdoe6768 Жыл бұрын

Why didn't you just ramp up your shutter speed for the first shot? Would have solved your problem, no?

@ymaizosz 3 ай бұрын

Because the example isn't really perfect. A good example would be a scenario where you needed a certain aperture and shutter speed set without getting overexposed, like taking a video. That is where ND Filters really shine.

@avajohn1579 Жыл бұрын

what if you increase the shutter speed? Would it have the same effect as the nd filter? Or would it lose in quality?

@Hshjshshjsj72727 Жыл бұрын

i dont think thats possible in video ?

@videoparkchannel Жыл бұрын

You are right in relation to photography 📸 yes you could just increase the shutter speed when taking a still photo. In terms of Videography, you want to leave the shutter speed at double your video framerate for example: 25fps = shutter speed of 1/50sec. This keeps a natural amount of motion blur when watching video.

@user-xn4cy8js7c 7 ай бұрын

Increasing the shutter speed would DECREASE the amount of light AND decrease the amount of sharp parallel light rays which can be collimated using a lower f-stop.

@kolithadilshan1004 3 жыл бұрын

Woow superb ...👍👍👍

@draysax Жыл бұрын

The most lucid explanation of ND filters I've seen.

@wilydramae6099 3 жыл бұрын

Wow😬

@kmychannel5559 4 жыл бұрын

wow vrgood

@aonchanel9106 4 жыл бұрын

👍❤

@proyotu3225 4 жыл бұрын

Like 👍 it

@ajkaye5719 Жыл бұрын

Would a ND filter fix flicker from neon light etc in video? Anyone know..

@user-xn4cy8js7c 7 ай бұрын

No. Neon light is actually oscillating at 60hz; frequency of power grid. It is never always on, but it looks like it. You have to shoot at a frame rate that is a multiple of 60hz (cycles). Like 30 or 60 fps. Don't shoot at 24fps. The neon light is powered from the grid; 120VAC (Alternating Current [AC]). Unlike DC, AC switches polarity and actually goes off every cycle. In the US, 60 times a second.

@azraandafrahinwonderland9833 4 жыл бұрын

Which editor are u using sir? :)

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Final Cut Pro

@azraandafrahinwonderland9833 4 жыл бұрын

@@LearnOnlineVideo thanks for replying.. :D

@user-xn4cy8js7c 7 ай бұрын

Just mention portraits instead of a SHOE! A 3-stop ND filter can work wonders on the sharpness of a portrait.

@doel89 5 ай бұрын

Could you not just increase shutter speed?

@alphabravo8960 4 жыл бұрын

Salam how r u sir im ur student from pakistan

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Hey alpha bravo , I hope this video has helped you learn more about videography & photography. Thanks for watching

@garrysutcliffe6254 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant video in 2023

@travelblog6815 4 жыл бұрын

The Great Square has no corners... and the Great Shoe has no laces;))

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

😂👟👌

@phoenix25140 Жыл бұрын

Why can’t you just speed up the shutter?

@ayechapin1 Жыл бұрын

Beginners' question here... my pictures turned red after installing the ND filter? :(

@ibrahimalip8072 4 жыл бұрын

3nd

@meshuvo4964 4 жыл бұрын

hey bro i am from bangladesh

@LearnOnlineVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Hey bro, I’m from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 nice to meet you 😀

@meshuvo4964 4 жыл бұрын

sem to bro

@adrian.martell 6 ай бұрын

Is that an ND2?

@zoner197 3 ай бұрын

"We'll fix it in post"

@dhavalmehta4262 4 жыл бұрын

100 pound is cheap ? Its one months salary in india for so many of them 😅

@grahamfloyd3451 Жыл бұрын

lol wut... I got absolutely nothing out of this video. I have no idea what he was trying to communicate. A beginner would come out of this thinking they need an ND filter instead of changing their exposure triangle.

@jimpeiffer8558 Жыл бұрын

it's literally impossible to have watched that video, actually comprehend it, and then say you came away with nothing. he composed the shot, adjusted the exposure triangle to his artistic intention, and introduced a filter to allow him to use the triangle he intended.

@deeqkaftanle4256 4 жыл бұрын

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@sunnygarden1952 7 ай бұрын

just go straight to the beef just say dirctly what is the nd filter without intros why do you torture viewers. why wasting one minute asking questions viewers was asking in his mind before searching on youtube